Painting techniques

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Oil Painting -
Single Leaf Tole painting project. A step by step guide to painting a single leaf using oil paint.	Single leaf oil painting demo
A step by step guide to painting an Amaryllis flower, wet-on-wet using oils paint.	Amaryllis oil project
Colour mixing information using Oil paint.	colour mixing colour mixing extra and how to avoid 'making mud'
Tole Wild Rose project, an easy project using oil paint with step by step instruction.	wild rose project to try
Interactive Oil Painting CD ROM with video clips.	Oil Painting CD
Free art-e-books on brush, knives and fat over lean. New	Free E-books
Tole Painting
Tole painting techniques and a little history about Traditional Tole painting can be found on these pages on my Zest-it site. Two Art-E-Books on CD are now available	tole brush strokes stroke design traditional tole history wild roses

Pen and Ink
The properties of ink and its use with dip pens	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 - and introduction into the type of dip pen nib to use in pen and ink drawing.	Dip pen nibs

Coloured Pencil

Coloured pencil blending techniques.

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

Interesting links and info on using Coloured Pencils

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.

This site runs workshops and has some free patterns. New

parchment techniques

kingfisher crafts

Oil Pastel

The Oil Pastel page on Zest-it.com is nearing completion,this covers surfaces that can be used and using Zest-it to blend the 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

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

watercolour projects

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
paint doodles

William F. Powell of the Walter Foster Art Publications

Watercolour demo

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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