Watercolour basics and beyond

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Exhibitions

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Letters

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Books

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Art clubs

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Art club gallery

If you would like to see your art group’s winning paintings

Online gallery

Jane Stroud’s selection of works from our PaintersOnline gallery

A personal approach

Take risks and be willing to fail regularly, says Jem Bowden, as he discusses his approach to landscape painting in watercolour

Painting project

Part 2 Complete your painting of crashing waves off the Isles of Scilly from a photograph and a sketch, with Richard Holland

Sketching for pleasure

Part 4 Learn how to add colour to your sketches as Tony Underhill completes his series with a line-and-wash study of a colourful Georgian townhouse

Pencils, paint and pixels

Mixed-media wildlife artist, Shelly Perkins, shares her unique methods of combining traditional and digital techniques to make her vibrant artwork

Placid water

Ready for a pastel challenge? Mix soft pastels with pastel pencils to create a dramatic scene of St Michaels Mount,

It’s all in the eyes

From understanding the parts of the eye to how you can paint realistic-looking features, Dave White demonstrates the importance of close observation

Autumn colour

Develop your watercolour skills as you paint a traditional view of the autumn landscape,

Three practices

Here are three ideas for painting better watercolours,

Come together

Placid water and ducks make the perfect foil for a dramatic sky at sunset,

Autumn woodland

Tony Hogan discusses the colours and techniques he uses to paint an autumn landscape from a charcoal sketch

Silent night

Ready to paint this year’s Christmas card? Here’s one idea for producing hand-painted cards,

All that glitters

Try something different and give your paintings the wow factor as you learn to apply metal leaf to your artwork, with