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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!...
Articles & inspiration
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The Work of Lucian Freud - Paint as Flesh
“I paint what I see, not what you want me to see.” Lucian Freud’s pursuit of this ideal led him to create some of the most recognizable and astonis...
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The Colour Palette of L.S Lowry
If you go out on the edge of Tianjin or Sao Paulo you’ll see industrialization is still taking place in this kind of raw and immediate and often br...
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Plein air painting locations, past and present
‘En plein air’, the familiar term for painting outdoors was popularised by the French impressionist painters. Many artists choose this method of pa...
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A Career Celebration: Josef Albers and Winsor & Newton (Part II)
Josef Albers was both part of and instrumental in creating the world in which artists are both taught and work today. It stems from his unrelenting...
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Palettes of the masters - JMW Turner
“Your business Winsor is to make colour. Mine is to use them.” This is Turner responding to gentle criticism from William Winsor who was concerned...
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A Colourful Relationship: Josef Albers and Winsor & Newton (Part I)
Artists who are looking for inspiring and exciting ways to work with colour could do well to look and re-look at the work of Josef Albers. His rele...
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William Holman Hunt & The Pre-Raphaelites Colour Palettes
Any artist who has been hit by rejection or criticism of their work could do worse than take heart from the experiences of the Pre-Raphaelites. Thi...
