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Planning a watercolour painting
When you're planning a painting in watercolour (rather than a study or a practice piece), it's really important to work out how you will tackle it. You need to think about highlights, light and dark, texture and detail and what order you're going to paint them, as...
Painting progress
I'm still working on my series of paintings from my sketch trip to Leeds. After all the studies and the alla prima heads I drew and painted I've got to bite the bullet, stop procrastinating and get stuck in to the main pieces. Exhibition! The big news, and the main...
New – Commission oil paintings on paper
As I've been painting lots of them, I thought I'd add oil on paper portraits to the selection of commissions that I offer. You can have a look in my online gallery in the 'portraits' section at the paintings marked 'Oil on paper' to see what I've been up to. I paint...
Finding your art style
When you are learning how to draw and paint being able to recognise your style can be one of the biggest frustrations, but it just means learning how to paint consistently, confidently and recognisably in your own visual 'voice'. Learning from others For a long time I...
News, exhibitions and updates
Nerves
It's the night before the exhibition. I think I've done everything, I hope I've done everything. I'll post Al the steps I had to go through to prepare when it's all over, I can, because I made lots and lots of lists! I'm very nervous about standing up in front of...
Countdown to exhibition week!
Less than a month to go until my exhibition and there is a lot to think about and do, this is most definitely a learning curve! I'm slightly disappointed in myself that I didn't manage to get more big paintings done, but the gallery is small and the paintings are...
More progress on my exhibition painting series
Finished paintings Ben I used various different techniques trying to suggest the movement of Ben's cello playing. Echoing shapes, fading out a second figure and fractured form. It was difficult to balance and learning experience, but I really...
Commissions update
I just wanted to give you an update on my availability for commissions if you're interested in commissioning a painting or drawing as a gift. I'm pretty busy at the moment but I do have some spaces so get in touch if you have ideas about a painting or...
Kristin Rawcliffe
Artist