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Loose and lively sketching

In the fourth of his five-part series on loosening up your painting, Kevin Scully offers tips on sketching with pen, ink, and watercolour

Kevin Scully trained at Wimbledon School of Art and spent many years as an illustrator in advertising and publishing. He has written several books on painting and runs workshops and painting holidays in the UK and abroad. Later this year he will be taking groups of painters to south-west France, and Halki in Greece.

See more of his work at kevinscully.co.uk

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