Understanding Your Watercolours: A Rembrandt Colour Wheel
PREMIUM A colour wheel is a great way to better understand the variations available in your paint set, as I demonstrate with this Rembrandt Basic Set.
How To Draw Accurately (Part 2): Spiral
PREMIUM Drawing in a spiral is an easy way to keep control of a sketch. With time and practice you’ll do it so fast that your drawings will be loose and expressive – and right.
How to Draw Accurately (Part 1): Mental Grid
PREMIUM: Drawing with confidence is one of the holy grails of sketching. In this article I share the first of three techniques that will get you well on the road to drawing fluently.
Light and Shade: Making Your Sketch Look “Real”
PREMIUM: Getting light and shade right in a sketch goes a very long way to making a sketch believable, to give a feeling of “being there”. Here’s how I approach it.
The Colours In My Paintbox: How They Earn Their Place
PREMIUM article. Finding you’re missing a crucial colour can be annoying at best..but choosing just twelve colours for your paintbox is hard. Here I describe mine, and why they’re there.