Bordeaux-coloured and beautifully detailed, these watercolour flowers can be used for any art project or decoration. With the amount of detail and work that has gone into designing and depicting …
A pink rose is said to symbolise grace and sweetness, which makes so much sense because when our pink roses bloom, our garden is filled with graceful, delicate butterflies that …
Oil painting has been a quintessential aspect of the art world as early as 650 A.D., and remains a popular method of creating vibrant, textured art. Whilst the medium can …
Starting out with painting roses can be somewhat intimidating because of the level of detail in natural roses. You may think that you need to get all the petal outlines …
Basing a palette around the colour ochre is not only easy, it’s been done since prehistory! Ochre – also known as ocher, or, when it contains a lot of hematite …
Ochre Colour Palette Basing a palette around the colour ochre is not only easy, it’s been done since prehistory! Ochre – also known as ocher, or, when it contains a …
Oil paint is made using two main ingredients: pigments and oil. The particles of pigment are suspended in the drying oil, which forms a film when exposed to air. The …
Creating a colour palette with olive green is a matter of selecting the right particular shade of olive, of which there are actually very many! While people might expect olive …
Sage, as its name implies, is a type of green with a distinct smokey grey overtone, considered a quaternary colour. Quaternary, in the context of colour theory, refers to colours …
In order to create a terracotta-based colour palette, you first need to know what exactly is terracotta. Terracotta, in terms of art, is an earthy red-brown colour, with a distinct toothsome texture …
