Meet the Blue Tit — a tiny garden favourite known for its vibrant colours and curious nature. With its bright blues, soft yellows, and delicate features, it’s a joy to paint and the perfect subject for exploring detail and character in your artwork.
This tutorial is perfect for both skill-buildin...

Immerse yourself in a peaceful river scene meandering through a lush, green forest in this 4-part acrylic painting lesson. This lesson helps you develop key painting skills—capturing movement, atmosphere, and subtle detail—using a limited colour palette. You'll learn to paint gentle ripples, blen...

In this lesson we’ll paint a charming English countryside cottage nestled in a springtime lane surrounded by budding trees, fresh greenery, and soft spring light.
I was instantly drawn to the reference image of this lesson—the gentle curve of the lane naturally leads your eye right to the heart...

This scene is painted entirely in acrylics, capturing rich depth, texture, and the gentle interplay of natural light. Inspired by one of my favourite dog-walking trails, it's a serene study in atmospheric perspective, detailed foliage, and the soft, golden glow of a setting sun.

In this lesson, ...

In this lesson we’ll be focusing on the delicate colour scheme and creating a luminous light effect.
I decided not to start with my traditional block-in. Instead I have taken a more direct approach. I’ll guide you through how to carefully build up the tones and transitions from the very start by...

Dive into the world of seascape painting! In this tutorial we’ll focus on creating depth and the illusion of transparency in the water, as well as capturing the motion and spray of the breaking wave on the shore. You’ll pick up many techniques to enhance your seascapes and carry through into furt...

This tranquil woodland stream landscape offers many exciting elements. The combination of the flowing water, textured tree trunks, and lush greenery offer a perfect chance to refine your painting skills. Practice texture, depth, detail, and master light and shadow techniques.
Difficulty: Advanced...

In this tutorial we are exploring one of the most striking elements in any artists palette, the bold Brilliant Red.
We will focus on painting this daub of oil paint. Though it looks simple, this tutorial offers many chances to improve your painting skills. capturing the smooth yet textured surfac...

This tutorial offers a great opportunity to practice rendering texture, movement and the interplay between light and shadow. The contrast with the soft, bright foliage and moving water is impressive and provides plenty of painting challenges. The rugged texture of the craggy rocks and rushing wa...

This tranquil scene captures the essence of winter. The snow-laden branches and hedging contrast beautifully against the dark moody sky. I can imagine walking down this lane, hearing the wonderful crunch underfoot, and breathing crisp cold air, while wrapped up in warm thermals of course!
In this...

This is a companion lesson to my Beginner Tree 1 tutorial, in the first lesson we concentrated on the delicacy of the tree branches, in this lesson we are adding foliage. You will learn how to create the structure and realistic foliage shape, the tree is silhouetted against the background as I d...

This lesson is very simplistic, with the pie isolated against a plain background, leaving nothing else to consider apart from the pie itself! This painting is further simplified with its limited colour palette, but the real emphasis is on the texture. Texture is often one of the most difficult as...

This beautiful Poppy scene is a really colourful and detailed summer scene, however it isn’t as complicated as it looks!
In this lesson, we use many previously learned techniques and skills to achieve as much realism and detail as possible. Unusually for me, this scene has a busy sky and landsc...