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The Artist Who Paints With Blood
Watch the video to learn how artist of the year Imran Qureshi creates blood effects with Winsor & Newton Perlyene Maroon red water colour.
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Five Must-Have Water Colour Plein Air Materials
We’ve picked our five must-have materials for plein air water colour artists, each of which will enrich your creative endeavours and make the transition between environments a smooth one. Learn more about our favourites!...
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Shades of Expression: Six Artists on Colour
From ancient painting materials such as crushed insects, mineral cinnabars and ash to their contemporary alternatives, artists have made and used c...
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The Revolutionary Work of Kazimir Malevich
Few artists are as associated with geometrical abstraction as Kazimir Malevich (1879-1935). Even at his death, Malevich’s white coffin was decorate...
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Visionary Talents: Five Great Artists Who Used Winsor & Newton
The Science behind great paintings. Leading the development of professional artists’ materials since 1832, Winsor & Newton has enabled generations...
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Building on Tradition: Watercolour Where You Least Expect It
It makes perfect sense then that watercolour would be a medium associated with experimentation and creative exploration. We have had a look back th...
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Culture Clash: 5 of the best musicians turned artists
From the 1960s onwards, art schools have produced some of the most innovative and radical pop musicians; The Beatles, Rolling Stones, David Bowie,...
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Type 1 Zealotry: how one artist curated an entire exhibition with only Winsor & Newton, Liquitex, and Conté à Paris materials
In his latest exhibition at Cock ‘n’ Bull Gallery, London, artist and curator Zavier Ellis has exclusively used Winsor & Newton, Liquitex and Conté...
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Back in Black
Considered a ‘non-colour’, black has always been a contentious issue in painting, yet contemporary painters continue to make new and exciting uses...
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Techniques for Contemporary Watercolour
There are many preconceptions about watercolour; a paradoxical medium, seen by some as the perfect entry into painting but by many as technically c...
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Techniques and Materials in Abstract Painting
The first truly abstract paintings were developed by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque in Paris between 1912 and 1914. Called Cubism, it was a new w...
