Skills & Knowledge

Make your next artwork pop by adding a lustrous finish and watch the colours come to life. Follow along the step-by-step video demonstration applying satin varnish to acrylic paintings, exploring handy hints and pitfalls to avoid that will save you time and money with loads of detail. (full video)

Welcome to part one of a four part tutorial series on how to paint a forest scene after a fire in acrylics using the brush and palette knife. (video)

Try new arty things, learn new skills, build your knowledge.

Just as I’ve been moving my work more vigorously towards painting abstract in style, l get a strong tap on the shoulder. You know the one. That part of you that tells you, leads you, compels you, calls you to do something.

This particular tap was compelling me to enter a local and prestigious art award with the theme of Landscape.