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Features & EditorialsThe Jackson’s Art shop in Gloucester hosted our first artist workshop a few weeks ago. It was so successful that we are now planning more events. The watercolour ...
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PrintmakingLiz Whiteman Smith is a full-time printmaker based in London, best known for her colourful screenprints of London buildings, Alice in Wonderland characters, patterned boobies, quirky dinosaurs and ...
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Features & EditorialsThere were 159 galleries at the Frieze Art Fair in London’s Regent’s Park this last week, 4th–7th October 2018. The number of artworks shown by each ranged from ...
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Watercolour PaintingGouache is a favourite paint of illustrators worldwide because it is opaque so it can be overpainted and corrected, yet it still has the simple and easy qualities ...
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Oil PaintingCold Wax Painting is a style of oil painting in which the artist mixes a wax medium into the paint and uses the thickened body of paint to ...
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Acrylic PaintingIf you’ve decided you want to stretch your own canvas, you’ll need to select your materials. The bars you stretch the canvas on are just as important as ...
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Acrylic PaintingOil and acrylic paintings these days are most often created on canvas. Canvas replaced wood panels for painting during the Renaissance because stretching canvas across wooden bars allowed ...
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Acrylic PaintingWhat are those little triangular pieces of wood for? When you purchase a ready-made canvas it will usually come with a little plastic bag of eight canvas wedges, ...
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Acrylic PaintingGlyn Macey can often be found roaming the harbours, moorland and coast of his native West Cornwall, sketchbook in hand recording the details of daily Cornish life and ...
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DrawingPhil Dean is an urban sketcher who likes to use markers to capture the architecture of a city when he travels. He is well-known in London as the ...
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Watercolour PaintingFAQ – Some people find the measurements of watercolour paper a bit confusing. Here is a short summary that might help. Loose sheets of watercolour paper often come ...
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DrawingPhil Dean is an urban sketcher who captures the architecture in London with marker pen, fineliner pen and watercolour wash. He calls himself the Shoreditch Sketcher, referring to ...
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