Painting Exercises

Abstraction is one of the most readily understood forms of painting as many people believe it to entail merely a random and arbitrary application of paint to a surface. In actual fact the most ...

Long before the Expressionists (see related article) began to consider the communication of inner feelings to be of primary importance in painting great painters have always had a knack for evoking ...

Space is a one of the most overlooked aspects of painting and one that is significant even if you have no intention of producing a real life three-dimensional scene. Using Tone and Colour to ...

Colours are often perceived as having associations that are not immediately linked to their actual material existence. For example green is associated with nature and foliage, even though the green ...

Colour is essentially the main element of painting primarily because it is something that painting does better than sculpture or drawing does. For this reason an appreciation of colour is essential ...

Glazing is a technique that can be used with all different paint mediums and has several advantages. For many painters the prospect of glazing is daunting, partly because it is built up to be the ...

Tone is a fundamental aspect of drawing and painting that will impact heavily on the way that a finished work is received. Generally, dark tones are used to evoke heavy, menacing scenes, whilst ...