Often painters use terms like sculpting or modelling forms as if they were working on solid blocks of stone. The light falling on a...

Welcome to the COAS summer term painting course and hello to other blog followers and fellow painting nerds. We're kicking off with two...

For the new term on the painting course at COAS I'm asking everybody to create and bring with them a sketchbook (I suggest A4) to support...

I've been out looking for inspiration for the watercolour workshop and found plenty the other day around Waterloo Gardens. The problem...

This will stop your paper cockling when wet, although some people don't mind a bit of undulation on the surface. 1. Leave your paper to...

I'm running a watercolour workshop at Oriel Canfas on Tuesday 3rd and Wednesday 4th of May. For those of you that don't know it, it is...

Members of the group were saying that the course starting in May had already filled up. I've now been told that this is not the case, so...

Thank you to the Monday and Thursday groups for accompanying me on this exploration of painting, I hope some of the fascination I have on...

Our last week of the current course and maybe the biggest challenge! We'll start off with a tonal sketch of ourselves and just...

"Tonal painting" refers to a style of painting where small differences in hue and value (tone) are built up to create the illusion of...

Next week we're going to paint a seated figure step by step so that the figure we paint is integrated into the background. We'll be...

Next week we are going to explore how all painting is essentially abstract in that it relies on the contrast of colours and shapes, even...

Next week we are painting daffodils so please bring some in or any other plant/flowers you are able to get hold of. Daffodils have a very...

Since there is no power point presentation for this week's class (we did a paint along yesterday) I wanted to put up some images to show...

As you know we are painting a shoe/boot still life next week, so don't forget to bring in a pair! I've been looking at how figures...

If you want to get some extra practice before our lessons you can try this one. The link is in the previous post. Try using Ultramarine...

Next week we will be working from 3D modelling images taken from the Sketchfab website, such as this one. Here is the link, if you want...

Don't worry, we're not painting more lemons next week! But for those who have yet to have this class we're going to concentrate on...

Next week we will be looking at painting lemons, not original but very useful when looking at how colour changes in step with value. If...

Next week we're looking at how light affects colour. We'll continue to practice using our holistic (right hemisphere) brain to look at...