Step by Step Watercolor Painting By Alistair Butt
Below is a wonderful step by step 
watercolor painting demo by the very talented artist Alistair Butt. Please take a moment to visit Alistair’s site when you are finished reading through this demonstration. There a handful of other demonstrations on his website, tips on painting supplies, limited edition prints for sale and more.
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Alistair Butt’s paintings are principally of coastal and landscape scenes, with a distinctive feature of his work being the skilful way that he includes interesting detail yet without compromising the sense of mood and the special qualities of light. His style is true to the great traditions of British landscape painting, and indeed all his inspiration comes from subjects within the UK. “From Cornwall and Kent to Cumbria and the Yorkshire Dales, each area provides an endless source of material for my paintings, and each has its own identity and feeling,” he says. |
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Artist Spotlite – Interview With Harmony Steel
“I really enjoy drawing and painting lots of different things. I love the process of sketching or swooshing watercolor paint about, or the peaceful tap-tap noise my reed pen makes when I draw with ink. I also love to experiment with new types of paper and ways of painting; I have waaay too many once-used art supplies 
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THE INTERVIEW
Q – What medium or mediums do you work with?
Acrylic Fantasy Painting Tutorial By Harmony Steel
Acrylic Fantasy Painting Demonstration By Harmony Steel
This tutorial is an instructive walkthrough of how I created “Alien Landscape” including details about paints, brushes, palettes and acrylic painting techniques. The painting was created with Atelier acrylics on a 20″x30″ gallery-wrapped canvas. There’s a few images here so you may need to give them a minute to load.
This is the finished painting, I’m unusually attached to this one and it remains part of my personal collection. Scroll down to see how it was made.
Pen and Ink Drawing Demonstration by Mike Budden
Drawing Demo – How to Draw the Chetnole Church by Mike Budden
How to draw: Using a photograph.
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MATERIALS USED IN THIS PROJECT:
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| Where accuracy is required, I use this grid system. This can be used on location as well. Simply hold the see through grid at arms length and locate the key points. Photo’s can often hide details in shadows and bright highlights. |
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| Draw your own grid onto layout paper (thin paper) to enlarge the image – the larger the squares, the bigger the picture. |
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| Now transfer your best lines from the layout paper to your cartridge paper. You do this by using transfer paper, (this is similar to carbon paper except that it transfers a pencil mark instead of ink) and a sharp hard pencil. Make sure the transfer paper is face down onto the cartridge paper. Place your layout drawing on top and then simply trace over your best lines. When this is completed, add the extra details lightly to your drawing on the cartridge paper, using an HB pencil. |
| Start with the clock first because if this goes wrong it’s easy to start again. The actual size of this clock face is just 21mm high. |
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