Art Tutor has launched

Art Tutor launched this week and promises to be an exciting new way for artists of all levels to brush up on skill that they need. Video tutor-age seems to be the order of the day, with step by step, bite sized chunks guiding you through all you need to know in a variety of mediums.

Take a foundation course in Watercolour, Oil Painting, Acrylic Painting, Pastel and Drawing plus much much more. What's more is you can pick and choose what you want to learn through the entire range and all for just a small subscription of £10 pcm if your based in the UK. You can cancel once youve finished what you want to learn its that simple.

Click the picture to see for yourself what its all about, I shall be taking up a subscription myself.

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This was taken with my blackberry torch to capture a love heart found on the side of my wife Sammy's coffee cup

Sent from my BlackBerry smartphone from Virgin Media

A selection of my recent pictures untouched

Some photographs that I am planning on developing into paintings or for Digital Manipulation.

Working on my blog content

I have been working on my blog content today and you will find some new things appeared on the right hand side. Firstly there is a Video feature linked to the Painting and Drawing Channel, which features tutorials from some of the best art teachers in the UK in a range of media, Oil Painting, Pastel Painting, Watercolour Painting and Drawing.

I have also added two link sections which contains 10 top links I think my readers, that's you, would be interested in. The first section contains Art related links including education, art supply stores and resources. The second section includes links to artists that I admire, whose work I find interesting and thought provoking. These links will be updated regularly so check back for more.

For a snippet of the Painting and Drawing Channel here is a taster video to get you started

Study Art at Home Home Study Art Course

Every so often I would like to include in my blog snippets of information I have found regarding art and one section of this is courses.

Not everyone can study art at college or on tutored holidays, because its expensive or they are unable to get out the house or they are just shy and intimidated by the thought of going to college, "I'm not good enough for that!" is a phrase that I often here, usually in my own thoughts.

A good way to learn art is to do so in the comfort of your own home and the London Art College is a great way to achieve this, you can take certificate courses or diploma courses in many different media or subject matter that takes your fancy.

These courses can be done at your own pace and you get tutor marked assignments to complete, all of which can be done on-line or by post. You can pay for the course in one go or in instalments making it a flexible way to learn.

I myself have taking a certificate in Coloured Pencil, which I am working towards as I write this, I lack confidence with a pencil so this a great way for me to brush up on drawing skills while at the same time learning a new medium with which to paint. I shall post my work as I complete it over the coming year.

If you'd like to consider a course or for more information, just click on the picture below and it will take you right to the London Art College website. Happy Learning!!!!

Par Beach Spring Evening

ParBeachSpringEvening, a photo by Lee Webb Artist on Flickr.

After some thought I decided to use this section of the painting as a finished peice in its own right after all I think it looks good compositionally, the strokes are free and loose and I'm happy with it. I shall develop the 2nd part to this and maybe make a few studies for a series of paintings. Who knows?

Par Beach Spring 2012 Digital Art

This painting is the initial stages of a developing art works, the first I have ever tried on a digital canvas. I am using Art Rage Studio Pro as the platform to develop the painting and my newly purchased Bamboo Tablet by Wacom.

I found it difficult at first especially as you have a wealth of settings and tools to choose from when using a digital art platform but after the initial hesitations that one feels with a new medium I settled in. This started off   as a sky experimentation and has developed from there. The initial painting is laid out and I have some manipuation to do, plenty of developing and then finishing touches. I expect I will fiddle for hours and hours to come before this is finished.

Here is the first stage, took me about 3hrs to get this far but hey whose counting?

Digital Oil Paint - Artrage Studio Pro

While my studio is being built this is the only way I can paint as everything else is packed let me know what you think!!!!

A tablet for my Illustrator Program

This is the Wacom Bamboo CTH-670 pen and touch tablet which gives you a platform to use programs like Artrage, Illustrator and Photoshop with ease.

I have got it out the box and spent nearly 3hrs setting it up and working through the tutorials, now I cannot wait to paint with it.

Even artists need dummies!

This is a great tool for starting out with illustrator, it explains all the necessary need to know bits to get you started without the techy jargon, it truly is for dummies and as I'm a dummy I'm qualified to say it works :-)

UKCPS Watercolour Pencil Tutorial

Hi Folks,

I don't know how many of you might be interested, but some of you may
recall we did an online exercise of a landscape using watercolour
pencils a year or so ago ( over the winter ) and around a dozen members
of the UKCPS Forum took part (and discussed their progress or lack of
it) - much of which was later published as The Allerford Tutorial on
www.penciltopics.co.uk

I am just about to get under way with another exercise that will build
into a quite big step by step tutorial.
This one is a street scene in Malcesine on Italian Lake Garda and
contains mainly buildings ( with a token tree).
I have just posted up the reference and will add to the notes as the
days go by, hopefully completing the picture and the notes before September.

If you want to follow along, have a look at
http://www.penciltopics.co.uk/page176.html
The tutorial also has links from the site home page so you can find it
again if you lose that reference.

I don't need you to get in touch, but if you do want to discuss what I
am doing in a similar group to last time, please let me know and I will
add you in to an EMail ring.

Cheers

Peter Weatherill
www.penciltopics.co.uk : 299 pages of free information
5000 plus readers every month seeking information on Coloured Pencils
and Pencil techniques

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Moved In

We have finally moved into our new home and the old tenants left it in such a state we have worked non-stop on cleaning and scrubbing and ripping up flooring.

Now we are on the decorating stage and finally unpacking some boxes.

My studio which is the cellar under the house is being used as storage while we square away the house proper.

I have done NO Art and its starting to get on my nerves now, but needs must. Life on hold, it will be worth it in the end. Hopefully start work on making the cellar into a usable studio for me and my wife.

As soon as I have some art to post you will be the first to know

Moving House

Many of my friends will know that a house move is on the cards, one with a purpose built art studio beneath it #bigsmiles

I am sat waiting patiently for the van......tap tap tap......... but it means that i have been quiet, sketches on hold, paintings on hold, driftwood on hold, life on hold

See you in a week roughly

Lee

Red Ball UK art project

Whilst enjoying the crisp sea air at The Barbican, Plymouth today, my wife and I were walking down the main cobbled stone street when we cam across an oddity, there squeezed between two "Elizabethan"?, buildings, was a giant Red Ball.

It turns out this ball is travelling the country as some sort of art project by Kurt Perschke and is titled, Kurt Perschke's RedBall UK

You can find out more about the project on its websites the UK site and the Artists Site click the pictures below, or follow them on twitter @RedBallUK

Sketch 6

Colour Study Composition Sketch 006 Oil Pastels

I did this sketch while working out a composition and wanted to lay down some colour as well so I decided to use oil pastels on paper

Drawing a Realistic Eye

Sketch a day 5

Just five minutes doodling with a new black marker that I bought for packing up the house to see if it has any qualities, it may come in useful but it saturates the paper

Daily Sketches 2, 3 and 4

Sketch 002

Sketch 003

Sketch 004

Pop Art Poppies

I took a lovely close up of a poppy in its natural surroundings sometime ago and i used this as a basis for creating a pop art poppy picture using a photo editing software.

Digital Art is something that appeals to me because I spend many hours on my laptop and it is something I can experiment with while doing my day to day activities

I cannot see it ever replacing my love of natural art though. However, my wife and children are buying me a digital art tablet for Fathers Day which is fast approaching. Yippeeeeeeeeeee

UKCPS

I've just signed up for membership to the society, seen as I have enrolled on a Coloured Pencil Certificate Course I thought that a membership would enhance my learning in this medium. I have always admired the beauty of coloured pencil paintings and hope that I can produce some great artwork that shows exactly how gorgeous this medium is

In other news I have just invested in a tin of Derwent Coloursoft 24 pencils and shall be doing some sketch work to see how the pencils produce for me and what effects, textures and colour blends I can get with them.

Bethany is back to normal today, armless, bored but back to her usual self. I just hope this means i can now knuckle down and continue with my schedule that has suffered since her accident.

I am moving in a few weeks time, no definite date yet but I cannot wait to get into my purpose built studio which comes with my new house.

I have some work to do

I am working on developing this picture into a painting in either oil or acrylic

Okay well its better to have a hurdle now at the beginning

Spent two nights in Hospital with Bethany so that they could reset her bones after A&E messed the setting of it up.

This means I have been unable to sketch or do pretty  much anything else, standby as I am not letting this get in the way.

Bethany is back to normal, how quick children bounce back