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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.
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
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 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
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
A selection of coloured pencil artists with lots of tips and techniques.	Coloured Pencil Artists
New 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
New Pauline Loweth and I have been friends for a long time, she was the first person to use Zest-it with her Parchment work. She has developed many techniques with it and her DVD's are very comprehensive.	Parchment Express
This page was supplied by a good friend of mine who teaches parchment craft, unfortunately she doesn't have a web site.	parchment techniques
Free Parchment patterns from this site also Parchment Blend online.	Judith Maslen
Some good video clips on this site	Gemini Crafts
This Parchment craft site runs workshops and has some free patterns, also hint and tips.	kingfisher crafts
New Zest-it product, Blending Sponge for use with brushes, tortillions and paper stumps for coloured pencil on parchment.	click the picture to go to our online shop
You can find some lovely Parchment work by Aileen Childs on this site, she also has free patterns.	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
Oil Pastel
New 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
An Oil pastel work can be found here.	Oil Pastel
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 using Gouache paint, it's properties and painting techniques.	Gouache
Information on Penman Liquid Gouache Ink, super, easy to use alternative to tube Gouache.	Liquid Gouache

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
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
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.
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
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
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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