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Oil Painting |
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| A step by step guide to painting wet-on-wet, a Hibiscus flower painted using oil paint on canvas. | 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. |
| If you would like to have a try at making your own painting medium and varnish then please visit this page. | Make you own |
| Tole Painting |
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| 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 |
| About One-stroke brushes for Tole painting using oil paint. | One Stroke Brushes |
| 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 |
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| New Inking Backgrounds is a new book about making your own backgrounds using Permanent ink, for use with calligraphy, oil pastels, coloured pencils and oil paint. | Inking Backgrounds |
| 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 |
| New Vintage dip pen nibs and many others at our new online shop for those interested in anything Pen and Ink. | Dip pen nib shop |
click the picture to go to our online shop
| General |
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| 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 |
| Colour mixing is something for all artists, this page covers colour mixing mainly for the oil painter, with useful information. | colour mixing |
| Value - greyscale and the importance of value in your own paintings. | tonal values |
| Silk Painting |
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| Silk painting techniques, galleries and instructions can be found on Leonard Thompson's site. | silk painting instructions. |
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| Egg Tempera - an introduction and step by step instructions. |
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| Watercolour |
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| 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 |
| 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 |
| Graphite/Pencil |
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| 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 |
| Pastel |
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| 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. |
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