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2017

Financial Fundamentals for Arty Enterprisesoriginal ↗
21 Jul 2017
Why This Painting is Wrongoriginal ↗
23 Jun 2017
How to balance the light between your painting and your subjectoriginal ↗
5 Jun 2017
How Many Tubes of Paint Do You Really Need?original ↗
26 May 2017
How to Loosen Up Your Painting (and Why You Shouldn’t Do It)original ↗
19 May 2017
The Problem with Warm and Cooloriginal ↗
12 May 2017
When to Take Off your Training Wheelsoriginal ↗
21 Apr 2017
How The Secret to Chess can Help You Mix Colouroriginal ↗
3 Apr 2017
Threads: Art, Suffering and the Meaning of Lifeoriginal ↗
17 Mar 2017
Why Do Artists Find it Hard to Sell?original ↗
3 Mar 2017
The Colour of Shadows (Part Two)original ↗
24 Feb 2017
Artificial Lights for Paintingoriginal ↗
17 Feb 2017
Meditations on a well-used penciloriginal ↗
10 Feb 2017
The Colour of Shadowsoriginal ↗
3 Feb 2017
Can You Make a Living as an Artist Online?original ↗
27 Jan 2017
How to Auction Your Paintings on Your Own Websiteoriginal ↗
20 Jan 2017
Why Being an Artist Means Learning to Face Your Fearsoriginal ↗
13 Jan 2017
A Short Guide to Sticking to Your New Year’s Resolutionsoriginal ↗
6 Jan 2017
What are your plans for 2017?original ↗
2 Jan 2017

2016

Colour is Easier to Learn Than You Think: Here’s Howoriginal ↗
25 Oct 2016
Three Simple Steps to Mixing Any Colour You Needoriginal ↗
9 Sept 2016
Mastering Colour: How to Paint Better Still Lifeoriginal ↗
25 Aug 2016
A Blue Lemon: Why Understanding Colour is the Key to Realismoriginal ↗
19 Aug 2016
How to Make a Munsell Value Scaleoriginal ↗
10 Aug 2016
Gratitude – What Almost Dying Taught Me About How To Liveoriginal ↗
13 Apr 2016
Close to the Edge: How Edge Control Helps You Create Depth in Your Paintingsoriginal ↗
24 Feb 2016
Three Steps to Painting More Natural Colour and Lightoriginal ↗
3 Feb 2016
How a Little Known Experiment with Chickens Can Help Artists Master Valuesoriginal ↗
28 Jan 2016
How a Simple Version of Sight Size Can Help You Paint More Realisticallyoriginal ↗
19 Jan 2016
What a Little Boy Taught Me About Achieving The “Impossible”original ↗
15 Jan 2016

2015

How To Get Better at Painting – Without Painting Anythingoriginal ↗
23 Dec 2015
Colour Mixing With Less Stressoriginal ↗
11 Dec 2015
Lessons Learned From a Failed Daily Drawing Habitoriginal ↗
3 Dec 2015
Values: Why Context is So Importantoriginal ↗
6 Nov 2015
The Most Important Painting Skill You Didn’t Know You Neededoriginal ↗
30 Oct 2015
Forget Inspirationoriginal ↗
23 Oct 2015
Why You Can’t Paint a Black Shadow (But How to Make it Look Like You Did)original ↗
16 Oct 2015
The Top 25 “Teach Yourself to Draw and Paint” Booksoriginal ↗
9 Oct 2015
The Truth about Seeing – And Why it Makes Drawing so Hardoriginal ↗
24 Sept 2015
Why It Takes Courage to Draworiginal ↗
17 Sept 2015
The 3 Best Books I Know For Teaching Yourself to Draworiginal ↗
4 Sept 2015
What we did in July – Creative Triggers Monthly Drawing Practice Challengeoriginal ↗
30 Aug 2015
Start your drawing habit – by helping someone else with theirsoriginal ↗
20 Aug 2015
Rembrandt Vs Turner: Who was right about values?original ↗
13 Aug 2015
Four Art Myths That Hold You Back (And How to Avoid Them)original ↗
7 Aug 2015
Draw More Accurately Without Really Trying: A Tiny Change With Astonishing Resultsoriginal ↗
31 Jul 2015
Just Open Your Sketchpadoriginal ↗
23 Jul 2015
June Drawing Practice: Notan Designoriginal ↗
16 Jul 2015
How to Draw Beautifully by Seeing Moreoriginal ↗
9 Jul 2015
Why Your Artistic Failures are Really Successes in Disguiseoriginal ↗
2 Jul 2015
Why We Draworiginal ↗
26 Jun 2015
May Drawing Practice: Mandalasoriginal ↗
19 Jun 2015
If Not Now, When?original ↗
4 Jun 2015
Why values are so hard – and how to start getting them more rightoriginal ↗
9 Mar 2015
The Secret Ingredient of Beautiful Compositions: Hidden Connections and Implied Linesoriginal ↗
13 Feb 2015
Hidden Patterns: How to design pictures like Veroneseoriginal ↗
5 Feb 2015
How to Make More Beautiful Compositions With Positive and Negative Spaceoriginal ↗
30 Jan 2015
Why We’re Forgetting How to See – And What To Do About Itoriginal ↗
14 Jan 2015
On Fresh Starts – and Learning to Ride a Bikeoriginal ↗
1 Jan 2015

2014

Habit Change for Artists – Leo Babauta of Zen Habitsoriginal ↗
27 Nov 2014
Three Uncommonly Effective Ways to Improve Your Compositionsoriginal ↗
3 Oct 2014
Six Simple Drawing Projects to Help You Learn The Right Thingsoriginal ↗
25 Sept 2014
Belfast Drawing Symposiumoriginal ↗
17 Sept 2014
Why Drawing is a Kind of Meditationoriginal ↗
26 Aug 2014
Perfect Imperfectionoriginal ↗
6 Jul 2014
How To Take the Frustration out of Drawing Practiceoriginal ↗
22 Jun 2014
How To See Like an Artistoriginal ↗
15 Apr 2014
Do Artists See Differently?original ↗
13 Feb 2014
Three Ways Brain Science Can Help You Draw Betteroriginal ↗
15 Jan 2014
A Simple Guide to Drawing More in 2014original ↗
1 Jan 2014

2013

Were You Failed By Your Art Education?original ↗
13 Oct 2013
Five Reasons You Should Accept My Daily Drawing Challengeoriginal ↗
2 Oct 2013
How Regular Practice Will Make You More Creativeoriginal ↗
24 Sept 2013
Why Getting Started Is So Hard, and How Make it Easieroriginal ↗
20 Sept 2013
Artists: Are We Natural Introverts?original ↗
6 Jun 2013
The Only Composition Rule You’ll Ever Need to Learnoriginal ↗
25 Apr 2013

2012

Designing Nature: A Series of Composition Exercises – Part Twooriginal ↗
31 Dec 2012
Designing Nature: A Series of Composition Exercises – Part Oneoriginal ↗
23 Dec 2012
How to Improve Your Compositions in 1,366 Easy Stepsoriginal ↗
3 Dec 2012
Three Reasons Taking an Art Course Might be a Good Idea After Alloriginal ↗
25 Nov 2012
Why You Don’t Need Another Art Courseoriginal ↗
18 Nov 2012
An Effective Practice Exercise to Develop Your Composition Skillsoriginal ↗
30 Apr 2012
Why Perfectionism is Holding You Back (And What To Do About It)original ↗
25 Apr 2012
A Powerful Way To Improve Your Compositions You (Probably) Haven’t Triedoriginal ↗
10 Apr 2012
How to Practise Every Day, Effortlesslyoriginal ↗
8 Apr 2012
Principles of Composition: Opposition and Transitionoriginal ↗
11 Feb 2012
Enjoying Painting and Drawing Practice For Its Own Sakeoriginal ↗
15 Jan 2012

2011

Meditations on Line: Dow Composition Practice, Chapter Twooriginal ↗
11 Dec 2011
That’s Not Art, It’s Just Copying What You See!original ↗
15 Jul 2011
Picture Composition Practice with Arthur Wesley Doworiginal ↗
26 Jun 2011
How to Practise Drawing Effectivelyoriginal ↗
19 Jun 2011
A New Non-Anatomical Approach to Human Form For Artistsoriginal ↗
20 Feb 2011
Talent: Why You Should Stop Believing In It And What Will Happen When You Dooriginal ↗
2 Jan 2011

2010

Composition: Some Possible Approaches to Learning Pictorial Designoriginal ↗
23 Dec 2010
What Makes Good Composition?original ↗
12 Dec 2010
Out of My Comfort Zone: Three Portraits from Winter 2009original ↗
14 Nov 2010
Sargent Portrait Drawing Copy, Part 4: Light, Value and Formoriginal ↗
31 Oct 2010
Sargent Portrait Drawing Copy, Part 3: Planes and Formsoriginal ↗
28 Feb 2010

2009

Sight Size Self Portrait Drawing – November 2009original ↗
7 Nov 2009
AIDS orphans in Kenya – Can You Help?original ↗
30 Sept 2009
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