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The balance between being bound by the rules or following our aesthetic response.

Try your hand at this watercolour project, guided by renowned watercolorist, Malcolm Beattie

Ever wondered how you can bring nature's "almighty-ness and brightness" back into the studio with you?

The excitement of chance.

Recording the disappearing wooden boats of Norfolk has become something of a mission for Andrew Dibben

John Lovett shares his insights on this impactful painting techniques

John Lovett shares his approach of creating physical and visual texture in watercolours

John Lovett shows how a painting workshop vacation will nourish your soul and jump start your creativity

If you could only use four colors what would they be? John Lovett gives you his answer

John Lovett's painting workshop vacations to exotic destinations present students with exciting scenes to paint

Experiments with texture

Experimenting with texture in oil paint.

Our ongoing series of workshops explores the ways and means of getting the most from your materials and mediums.

Painting trips are a great opportunity to scribble notes and do some quick sketches.

We asked several art show judges to give evidence

Can you help raise US$1M for the United Nations Children's Fund?

Absorb and enjoy David Taylor's immediate, urgent and fresh approach.

Look at all opportunities presented and carefully decide which are the best for your art career.

Logan Maxwell Hagege shares his simplistic approach to his 2014 Masters of the American West signature piece Mesa Drifters

Wet weather on one of our painting workshop vacations to Tasmania demanded that tour leaders Charles Reid and Robert Wade find alternative subject matter.

Hillary Scott focuses on atmospheric perspective and color temperature to create her radiant landscapes

John explores the light and atmosphere of Australia's wetlands

James Gurney shares how new insights in visual perception and neuroscience can help us as artists

James Gurney shares how new insights in visual perception and neuroscience can help us as artists

Asking the right questions can lead to successful sales

This medium is matte, muted and cool, but it's not for the fainthearted.

A unique approach that combines found and constructed objects, first into collages and then into trompe l'oeil paintings.

Graeme Smith Examines whether there really is a correlation between quality and sales

This ancient Japanese technique closely related to marbeling

The CSPWC comes up with a definition.

One of America's leading impressionistic painters shares his philosophy about what's eally important in the pursuit of fine art. With Aleksander Titovets

An insider's look at what it takes to land the top awards.

Alex Powers asks you to take this Self-Assessment Test to find out why your work looks the way it does.

Frank Gordon discusses the collision between the eternal and the ephemeral.

David Howell and Ben Manchipp offer their theories.

Tiana Marie and Bob Rudd offer their ideas on the poetic qualities of the Lake District, Snowdonia and Scotland.

Part 4 of our series showing the British landscape through the eyes of its acknowledged contemporary masters. This issue we ask the question of Vivienne Pooley, Robert Greenhalf, Helen Turner and Andy Wood

Part 4 of our series showing the British landscape through the eyes of its acknowledged contemporary masters. This issue we ask the question of Terence Storey and Raymond Leech.

Part 3 of our series showing the British landscape through the eyes of its acknowledged contemporary masters. This issue we ask the question of Lionel Aggett, Jeane Duffey and John McCombs

Part Two of our new series showing the British landscape through the eyes of its acknowledged contemporary masters. This issue we ask the question of Kenneth Denton and David Curtis.

Part One of our new series showing the British landscape through the eyes of its acknowledged contemporary masters. Juliette Palmer, Keith Shackleton, Terry McKivragan, John Newberry, Stephen Brown and Edward Stamp.

How Ruth Brownlee uses her own visual language to interpret the landscape.

Creating powerful art is as simple as manipulating 5 essential elements.

There are certain building blocks that pave the way for expressive art. Once you understand and adopt these fundamentals your inner artistic message will follow naturally.