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Oil Painting
A step by step guide to painting wet-on-wet, a Hibiscus flower painted using oil paint on canvas. New	Wet-on-wet Hibiscus flower
A step by step guide to painting an Amaryllis flower, wet-on-wet using oils paint.	Amaryllis oil project
Colour mixing information, with a slant to using Oil paint in colour mixing extra.	colour mixing colour mixing extra and how to avoid 'making mud'
Interactive Oil Painting CD ROM with text, animations, images and video clips, also over 600 photos to use in your work.	Oil Painting CD
Free Art-e-books on oil painting brushes, painting knives and the fat over lean principle.	Free Art E-books
Painting mediums can cause confusion for those new to oil painting, if you would like to know more about using them, try this page. New	Zest-it Clear Painting Medium.
Tole Painting
Tole painting techniques and a little history about Traditional Tole painting can be found on these pages on our Zest-it site.	traditional tole history
Single Leaf Tole painting project. A step by step guide to painting a single leaf using oil paint.	Single leaf oil painting demo
An Art-E-book covering the Single Leaf project with text, images and video clips is available for Download at a much reduced price.	Single Leaf project download
For a printable page of basic Tole brush strokes	tole brush strokes
Tole Wild Rose project, an easy project using oil paint with step by step instruction.	wild rose project to try
Another project, slightly more complicated using only a few colours but lots of different tones and strokes	stroke design
Two Tole painting Art-E-Books on CD or for Download are now available. These e-books have text, images and video clips.	Tole Brush strokes Loading and Blending

Pen and Ink
The Pen and Ink section has the links below plus others, including fitting reservoirs to dip pen nibs.	Pen and ink
The properties of ink and its use with dip pens, getting the ink to flow, types of ink to use and more.	Ink and its use
Automatic Lettering and Calligraphy Pen, with a unique nib that writes in any direction and is easy to use.	Automatic Pens
Roberson's Penman Ink Range - Classical Transparent, Liquid Gouache, Permanent Pigment (India ink) and Natural Historical ink	Penman Ink Range
Dip Pen nibs for drawing - an introduction into the type of dip pen nib to use in pen and ink drawing and how to choose them.	Dip pen nibs

Coloured Pencil

Coloured pencil blending techniques using Zest-it.

Coloured Pencil Blending

You can find very good information about blending coloured pencil on the UK Coloured Pencil Society site.

Blending techniques
Blending tools

Check out my friend Bob Ebdon's site for more coloured pencil information.

www.colourpencilart.co.uk

Use this link to Ann Swan's site, Ann was one of the first to use Zest-it for blending in her work.

Ann Swan

Lots of information, interesting links and artists demo's on using Coloured Pencils, different papers and solvents.

making a mark

Graphite/Pencil

Pencil sketch with the pencil marks and methods used to render the drawing, more drawings can be found in the Pencil Gallery with technique information alongside.

cottage

Pencil Gallery

Parchment Craft

This page was supplied by a good friend of mine who teaches parchment craft, unfortunately she doesn't have a web site.

parchment techniques

This Parchment craft site runs workshops and has some free patterns, also hint and tips. New

kingfisher crafts

You can find some lovely Parchment work by Aileen Childs on this site, she also has free patterns. New

Parchment work

Christine Coleman Parchment craft site, with DVD, patterns and helpful advice, you can also buy Zest-it Pencil blend from her shop.

Christine Coleman New

Oil Pastel

The in-depth Oil Pastel page on Zest-it.com covers surfaces that can be used, blending the pastels and using Zest-it with Oil pastels. New

An Oil pastel work can be found here.

oil pastels

Oil Pastel

Egg Tempera

Egg Tempera - an introduction and step by step instructions.

egg tempera instructions.

Silk Painting

Silk painting techniques, galleries and instructions can be found on Leonard Thompson's site.

silk painting instructions.

Watercolour

Jane paints mainly flowers with lovely vibrant backgrounds. She has a tips page with prints available.

Jane Betteridge

Pete Saw and I have been friends for a long time, with many discussions about the merits of oil and watercolour painting! Good projects to try.

Pete Saw website
Projects at paint doodles

William F. Powell of the Walter Foster Art Publications

Watercolour demo

New Realistic Trees in Watercolour is now on DVD with some clips to give an insight into the contents.

Realistic Trees in Watercolour

Another very good friend of mine Charles Evans, has an excellent selection of projects in watercolour.

watercolour projects

Gouache

An Introduction to using Gouache paint, it's properties and painting techniques.

Information on Penman Liquid Gouache Ink, super, easy to use alternative to tube Gouache.

Gouache

Liquid Gouache

Pastel

The Pastel Gallery has been updated with some close up detail of the strokes used. Pastel step by step are in the pipeline.

Beech wood
Over the wall.

General
Regardless of the medium used, the information on these pages relating to colour and the colour wheel still applies. These are on my other site at Zest-it - just click the X in the top right hand corner to close the window.	colour wheel colour now updated
Value - greyscale and the importance of value in your own paintings.	tonal values
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