Artist's Painting Techniques

Artist's Painting Techniques brings together a selection of award-winning artists and tutors who are represented by multiple galleries throughout the UK, including Hashim Akib, Colin Allbrook RI RSMA HSEA, Marie Antoniou, Grahame Booth, John Chisnall, and Graham Webber ROI IEA EAGMA.

1: The basics


1: Beginner techniques
2: Intermediate techniques
3: Advanced techniques


2: Watercolours
3: Acrylics


1: Beginner techniques
2: Intermediate techniques
3: Advanced techniques
1: Beginner techniques
2: Intermediate techniques
3: Advanced techniques


4: Oils
5: Glossary
6: Index
7: About the artists




1: Painting with oils
2: Oil paints
3: Brushes and palette knives
4: Supports and other materials
1: Ground colour
2: Skin tones
3: Colour harmony
4: Tonal values
5: Using mediums
6: Oiling out
7: Glazing
8: Re-evaluating and correcting
9: Finding your style
10: Varnishing
11: Showcase painting
1: Aerial perspective
2: Blending
3: Impasto
4: Sgraffito
5: Scumbling
6: Broken colour
7: Wiping and scraping back
8: Wet-in-wet
9: Texture
10: Tonking
11: Showcase painting
1: Colour mixing
2: Mark-making
3: Palette knives
4: Fat over lean
5: Layering
6: Drawing and underpainting
7: Decreasing stages
8: Alla prima
9: Creating forms
10: Showcase painting
1: Creating focal points
2: Optical colour mixing
3: Painting rain
4: Painting fur
5: Dramatic skies
6: Painting people simply
7: Skin tones
8: Painting movement
9: Showcase painting
1: Adding texture
2: Using ground colours
3: Blending
4: Glazing
5: Warm colours
6: Cool colours
7: Painting with warm and cool colours
8: Negative space
9: Reflections
10: Showcase painting
1: Colour mixing
2: Using a limited palette
3: Drawing with a brush
4: Tints, tones and shades
5: Acrylic washes
6: Neat acrylics
7: Painting shapes
8: White subjects
9: Aerial perspective
10: Showcase painting
1: Painting with acrylics
2: Acrylic paints
3: Brushes and palette knives
4: Supports and other materials
1: Painting with watercolours
2: Watercolour paints
3: Brushes
4: Supports and other materials
1: Planning a painting
2: Mood
3: Laying a double graduated wash
4: Laying a granulated wash
5: Monochrome
6: Glazing
7: Building layers
8: Adding details
9: Reflections
10: Opaque whites
11: Skin tones
12: Showcase painting
1: Laying a flat wash
2: Laying a graduated wash
3: Lively darks
4: Aerial perspective
5: Edges
6: Highlights
7: Adding texture
8: Paper surfaces
9: Correcting errors
10: Reserving whites
11: Line and wash
12: Experimental techniques
13: Showcase painting
1: Colour mixing
2: Colour charts
3: Tone exercises
4: Warm and cool colours
5: Brushstrokes
6: Laying paint
7: Using runs
8: Modelling form
9: Simplifying a scene
10: Showcase painting
1: Getting Started
2: Observational skills
3: Colour theory
4: Perspective and composition
5: Pencil-drawing basics
6: Using a pencil to create tone
7: Choosing a medium
8: Choosing a subject
9: Working outdoors
10: Mounting and displaying work