Art tutorials and links

Links to other websites: Links to art, photography and nature conservation websites.

Tutorials:

How I paint- general techniques: Tips and general techniques I apply to all my artworks.

Scanning large artworks: How to scan artworks larger than a scanner bed and piece them together with a graphics program.

"Petalburn" step-by-step process: "Petalburn" is a triptych acrylic artwork with a strong blue-pink colour contrast. This tutorial explains my painting process in detail.

"Bilbies with Bite" step-by-step process: "Bilbies with Bite" is a large (71 x 51.5 cm/ 28" x 20") acrylic artwork. This page comments on my painting process in some detail.

"Sacred Coil" design, composition and execution: Commenting on my composition, design and painting process with reference and progress photos.

Fur tutorial: Step-by-step guide to how I paint fur in acrylics, with a lion as the subject matter.

Large-scale landscape tutorial: How I painted an aerial view of a harbour.

Mountain landscape tutorial: Step-by-step guide to how I painted a mountainous landscape, in acrylics on illustration board.

Opaque acrylics tutorial: The step-by-step making of an artwork in mostly undiluted acrylic paint on illustration board. My technique has changed somewhat since this work was painted in 2006.

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