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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.	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.
New Use this link if you would like to know more about how to give a final protective varnish to your oil painting.	Using Damar Picture Varnish
If you would like to have a try at making your own varnish for oil painting, then please visit this page. (updated)	Make you own Damar Varnish
New If you would like to have a try at making your own oil painting medium, then please visit this page.	Make you own 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
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
New Need to remove Indian and Permanent Ink from your dip pen nibs? Have a look at the Zest-it Dip Pen Nib Cleaner, since its introduction earlier this year it has become very popular - 'efficiently does the job!'	Dip Pen Nib Cleaner
New A guide to using Pelikan inks for fountain and dip pen.	Pelikan inks
Zest-it ® and Zentangles ® If you've not tried Zentangles, have a look at Jane Monk's blogspot for an excellent tutorial on using Pencil Blend with her tangles. You can purchase her blending kit for Zentangles on her website.	Pencil Blend
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.	Properties 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
Classical Transparent, Liquid Gouache, Permanent Pigment (India ink) and Natural Historical Ink	About these Inks
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
Vintage dip pen nibs and many others at our new online shop for those interested in anything Pen and Ink.	Dip pen nib shop
Coloured Pencil
New Zest-it ® and Zentangles ® If you've not tried Zentangles, have a look at Jane Monk's blogspot for an excellent tutorial on using Pencil Blend to blend coloured pencils to add colour to her tangles.	Blending Coloured Pencils
New The Austrailian Coloured Pencils Network has a three part article on blending coloured pencils, including using Zest-it Pencil Blend	Blending and Layering Coloured Pencils
Coloured pencil blending techniques using Zest-it.	Coloured Pencil Blending
This was a good page about blending coloured pencil on the UKCP Society site but their site has changed and the page removed. Have a look at this site.	Pauline Longley
Ann Swan 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
Zest-it Blending Sponge for blending Coloured pencils.	Blending Sponge
Parchment Craft
New Blending Coloured pencil on Parchment paper, using the Blending Sponge and inking using a dip pen nib.	Blending and Inking on Parchment
This parchment craft was supplied by a good friend of mine who teaches.	parchment techniques
Some good video clips on this Parchment craft site (link updated)	Gemini Crafts
Parchment craft workshops and has some free patterns, also hint and tips.	kingfisher crafts
Zest-it Blending Sponge for use with brushes, tortillions and paper stumps for coloured pencil on parchment.	Blending Sponge our online shop
Lovely Parchment work by Aileen Childs, she also has free patterns.	Parchment work
Christine Coleman Parchment craft, with DVD, patterns and helpful advice.	Christine Coleman
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.	Oil pastels
Gouache
New Gouache Painting Techniques is a new book I've produced, to help those wishing a solid introduction into using Gouache.	Gouache Painting Techniques
An Introduction to Gouache paint, it's properties and painting techniques.	Gouache Paint
Liquid Gouache Ink, super, easy to use alternative to tube Gouache.	Liquid Gouache Ink

General
Regardless of the medium used, the information on these pages relating to colour, colour mixing, tonal values 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 tonal values colour colour mixing
Silk Painting
Silk painting techniques, galleries and instructions can be found on Leonard Thompson's site.	silk painting instructions.
Egg Tempera
Egg Tempera - an introduction and step by step instructions.	egg tempera instructions.
Beautiful Egg Tempera paintings with emulsion recipes and instructions.	by James Eddie
Watercolour
Jane paints mainly flowers with lovely vibrant backgrounds.	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's website Projects at paint doodles
Realistic Trees in Watercolour is now on DVD with some clips to give an insight into the contents.	Realistic Trees in Watercolour
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
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.
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