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Kingfisher Bird Pastel HIDI GUIDE 5 Working with Pastels
Learn how to create a stunning pastel kingfisher drawing in this detailed “Kingfisher Bird Pastel HIDI Guide 5 ” This step-by-step guide covers the materials you’ll need, blending techniques, and expert tips to bring bright bird colours to life in pastel art. Follow each stage working with pastels from building the eye to feather details and finishing touches. Some of the products you will be using are Faber-Castell Pastel Pencils, Cassart Pastel, Zestit and Clairefontaine Pa
Mark East
Jan 317 min read


Learning Watercolour Techniques from Thomas Girtin’s Morpeth Bridge
Discover Thomas Girtin’s watercolor techniques through a step-by-step guide to painting Morpeth Bridge. Perfect for watercolor newcomers
Mark East
Nov 12, 20244 min read


Everyone can draw and everyone can paint.
Let me start by saying up front, everyone can draw and everyone can paint. The problem is how much time you are gong to put into practicing and honing your newly found skills.
You will read about cool and warm colours, perspective, composition all of which will put you off right from the start. Well don't be, it happens to all of us. I retired some 3 years ago, I hadn't painted since junior school and that was with my fingers and hand , according to my 89 year old mother.
Mark East
Jan 4, 20246 min read
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