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You’ve created your best painting yet, and now it is time to present it to the world. Whether you want to share your achievements with family and friends, send an image to a gallery, make a social media post, or create a fine art print, read on to discover ways of creating the perfect image of your artwork. The first consideration for photographing a piece of art is lighting. I’m not a technical photographer, so I can’t advise about F-stops and apertures, but I’ve learned eno

In this short blog I aim to share the highs and lows of painter’s block and highlight some ways of shaking off the #blues and getting back t

This is a typical example of how I achieve my compositions. The radar is always switched on for combinations of design elements, such as ...

Seven great tips for painting from photographs.

Seven useful tips for developing your own compositions.

In this blog post I share tips, encouragement and personal experience for navigating your way towards forming your own painting style.

Do one thing to improve your values in your paintings

A blog post about using and mixing tone in the context of a painting.

Orange, Pisa. Acrylic on paper 19 x 28cm approx In this #painting I wanted to pull the #design together through the use of strong connected #colour. The car and background building were already similar in hue, so I didn't have much to do in terms of alteration, but it's a good example of being switched on for #composition when out and about. We were actually dragging large suitcases across the rattling streets of #Pisa, when I noticed the colour of the car echoing the colour

If you’re new to painting or maybe you don’t paint at all but love #art, you might be intrigued to know how artists create their work. If you already paint you will no doubt be eager to read on and maybe pick up a few tips. "Often my subjects are captured from places and angles that you wouldn’t be able to erect an easel". What Makes A Painting? Composition is the arrangement of shapes and elements that form a harmonious assembly. It begins with shapes but there is far mor

Consider your use of edges whenever you start to paint.

How to begin painting, what medium to choose and what is involved.