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Difficulty: 2.5/5 Colours: Cool blue, white, cadmium yellow, cadmium red, black Brushes: Large brush, medium flat brush, small round brush To understand the process behind how Hockney created the entire Paper Pools series using the paper pulp medium, I’d recommend reading this article. Getting…
Difficulty: 3.5/5 Colours: Chromium oxide/green, white, cadmium yellow, ultramarine, burnt sienna Brushes: Medium flat brush (for sketching), small round brush Claude Monet hardly needs an introduction – as the father of French Impressionism, most of us will have seen his work at some point…
Difficulty: 4/5 Colours: Sienna, red, chromium oxide/green, white, cadmium yellow, ultramarine Brushes: Medium flat brush, small round brush Max Weber was a Jewish-American painter who was significantly influenced by Henri Matisse. He enrolled in Matisse’s school in Paris, where he painted this piece using vibrant…
Difficulty: 4.5/5 Colours: Chromium oxide/green, white, ultramarine, cadmium yellow, red Brushes: Medium flat brush, small round brush About this piece Previously we attempted Promenade by August Macke, which focused on creating curves to get the right look. In this painting of Four Girls, it needed…
Difficulty: 3/5 Colours: Burnt sienna, white, blue, lemon yellow, red Brushes: Medium flat brush, small round brush This was a very intimate piece to paint – the combination of soft colours and the gentle embrace make you go “aww” when you first see it! While…
Difficulty: 4/5 Colours: Cadmium yellow, titanium white, primary cyan, mars black, brilliant red Brushes: Medium flat brush, small round brush Charles Blackman’s art is incredibly expressive and emotional – and this piece is no different. I think the hardest part of this painting for…
Difficulty: 3.5/5 Colours: Titanium white, cadmium yellow, phthalo blue, brilliant red, mars black Brushes: Medium filbert brush, medium flat brush It was really helpful studying Van Gogh’s Wheatfield with Cypresses just before trying out this beautiful landscape painting by Georges Braque. While Van Gogh’s…
Difficulty: 2.5/5 Colours: Titanium white, phthalo blue, chromium oxide, yellow, red (just a bit!) Brushes: Medium flat brush, small flat brush Well wasn’t this a pleasure to study! I found it most approachable to think of Van Gogh’s painting as a sequence of tonal…
Difficulty: 3.5/5 Colours: Titanium white, ultramarine, red ochre, mars black, yellow (just a bit!) Brushes: Flat brush, detail round brush I’m beginning to fall in love with Magritte’s style of surrealism (sorry Dali) – it’s simple and beautiful, saying so much with so little!…
Difficulty: 4.5/5 Colours: Titanium white, ultramarine, yellow ochre, brilliant red, mars black Brushes: Flat brush, detail round brush Oh, Monet – he is truly the master of colour. I’ve given this painting a higher difficulty not because of the drawing aspect (getting shapes, proportions…