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Coloured Pencil Advanced Techniques
Wow - coloured pencil work using the advanced layering and burnishing techniques I've just learned is SLOW! It takes hours and hours to do very little. Quite a lot of patience is required, which is a...
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Realistic Watercolour Tutorials
I've tried a few different online tutorial sites but find I am happiest with Anna Mason's online school, which teaches very realistic watercolour painting. It's not traditional botanical painting as...
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More Tutorial Work
A couple more of my paintings done under tuition from Anna Mason's online school.
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Bullfinch in Coloured Pencil
I'm enjoying some good coloured pencil tutorials at the moment. I've just finished this bullfinch under guidance from a video tutorial with Alan Woollett.
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Botanical Work in Coloured Pencils
I'm really enjoying my coloured pencil work at the moment and am making good progress, getting a feel for the techniques and colours. I'm doing sketchbook work as well as finished pieces.These are...
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Siberian Iris in Coloured Pencil
This is actually an exercise in one of my Billy Showell instructional books (A-Z of Flower Portraits). I did it in watercolour first, but then I decided to also do it in coloured pencil, and I prefer...
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Pied Wagtails
I love Pied Wagtails and their jaunty tail-bobbing. They always seem so cheerful. These are coloured pencil on sketchbook paper.
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Bee on Foxglove
I've joined a challenge group on my art forum. Each month there is a theme and we all paint/draw an offering within the theme. Reference photos are provided, which we can use or not as we wish. It's...
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Bumblebees
Bumblebee sketchbook pages.And my version of an identification guide, in coloured pencil. The artist of the original guide kindly gave me permission to use it as a reference guide for my own version.
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Geranium Botanical Study
Geranium 'Johnson's Blue' Cranesbill.We have this plant in our garden and the bees love it. It's the first time I've used cuttings of all the different parts of a live plant in the studio (although I...
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Goldfinch on a Teasel
I'm really enjoying drawing birds at the moment. Some of them don't turn out so well but I'm pleased with this one. It's coloured pencil on sketchbook paper.
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Crab Apples
I'm trying out different sketchbook papers, to see which I like best. Some work much better with coloured pencils than others. Here's a study of crab apples I did on Winsor and Newton sketchbook paper....
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Colouring Books for Practice
I've just discovered that botanical colouring books are a really fun way to practice shading techniques and try out colour mixes.I wanted to find the perfect layering recipe to achieve rich dark...
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Adonis Blue Butterfly in Coloured Pencil
My first large butterfly study in coloured pencil. I found the hairy body extremely difficult to capture accurately - with such tiny pencil strokes it's very hard to retain the highlights. I loved...
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Pussy Willow Stems
I wanted to see if I could capture the fuzzy quality of Pussy Willow buds in coloured pencil. I used the embossing technique before adding colour, to retain some bright white lines. I realised...
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Botanical Sketches
Some more coloured pencil sketches - I did these back ago in the autumn but didn't get round to posting them! I was trying out different papers with these, trying to figure out which sketchbook paper...
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Rose Hips
Another botanical sketch I forgot to post previously! Coloured pencils on Winsor & Newton sketchbook paper. This paper is not suitable for layering coloured pencil, so I really struggled, but...
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Blue Tits
I drew these sketches of blue tits a while ago but forgot to post them. I think they are slightly too fuzzy-looking in texture, but I'm happy with the colours.
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Brown Hare
Finally finished this brown hare, which was actually supposed to be a tutorial project. Unfortunately the tutorial booklet turned out to be terrible - completely useless for guidance (so I won't...
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Landscape Sketches
I've been wanting to have a go at learning landscape techniques for a long while and I've finally started. I've been reading up and watching tutorials, and have started a practice sketchbook. I started...
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Lots of Landscape Sketching Practice
I've been continuing to practice my landscape sketching in water media as much as possible. Here are some of the better ones:
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Penhale Sands Sketches
Just realised I forgot to post these landscape sketches of Penhale Sands in Cornwall...
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More Landscape Sketches
More of my landscape practice sketches..Watersoluble and dry Coloured PencilsWatersoluble and Dry Coloured PencilsWatercolour paints plus Watersoluble and Dry Coloured Pencils
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Red Barn Snow Scene
I had a break from landscape painting practice over Christmas but I'm getting back into it now. This was supposed to be for my December Watermedia challenge, but I've only just finished it. First time...
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