Crash Diets That Work

For water colour painters, it makes no difference if you’re thinking of tackling a landscape or pet portrait, you’ll be faced with having to show areas of dark shadow. Many leisure painters, when first faced with dark areas in their picture, will quite often use a tube of black or produce muddy looking colours. Regrettably, it can be quite hard to see the different tones within dark areas, it’s much easier to gauge colour tone in the lighter shades. (more…)

Whether you would like to paint a still life or a pet portrait, painting a three dimensional object on a two dimensional canvas has always been a challenge. To do it convincingly whilst keeping your picture fresh and clean is even harder. Beginners frequently grab the tube of black to show shadow effects on an object, but here lies disaster. (more…)

Water colour’s a medium that allows for many tricks to produce the required effects. One of the more difficult effects to overcome effectively is snow. Not merely useful for landscape painters but can also bring a little something to pet portraits as well. (more…)

When you think about portraits, you frequently think of oil painting. Nevertheless, many superb portraits have been done using water colour. Water colours offer a means of capturing quick informal studies that where they lack on detail, more than make up for it in character. (more…)

Paint brushes are the tools the pet portrait artist just cannot do without, their painting style and technique relies on them. Professional artists brushes can cost a great deal to replace, so it’s right to make certain they’re kept in good condition for as long as possible.

Whilst it is essential, cleaning is in itself is detrimental to the brushes so, if an artist has to interrupt the painting process, say an hour or two, it’s better to just load the brush with fresh paint and either wrap it with cling film. (more…)