• Prints
  • Originals
  • About
  • Blog
  • Contact
Menu

Mark Gibbons Art

_
Trewen
_
Watercolours of Cornwall

TREWEN

Mark Gibbons Art

  • Prints
  • Originals
  • About
  • Blog
  • Contact
Martyn's heifers thinking hard_resize.jpg

Small Holding Diaries

No results found

Search by Tags

  • Lessons
  • Small-holding
  • Art Matters
  • Conversations

More posts

Featured
Transparency Test for Blues.JPG
10 January 2019
Lesson 9 - Transparency and Opacity
10 January 2019
Read more →
10 January 2019
Staining Test for Blues.JPG
3 July 2018
Lesson 8 - Staining
3 July 2018
Read more →
3 July 2018
Set 1 - Burnt Sienna to Cobalt.JPG
16 February 2017
Lesson 7 - Fifty Shades of Grey (or Green or Brown or…)
16 February 2017
Read more →
16 February 2017
Lesson 6 - Planning the Journey
6 July 2016
Lesson 6 - Planning the Journey
6 July 2016
Read more →
6 July 2016
8 March 2016
Lesson 5 - Getting Painting and Organising the Process
8 March 2016
Read more →
8 March 2016
14 January 2016
Art Matters
Some encouragement for 2016 and a word of warning
14 January 2016
Art Matters

My weekly life drawing sessions start again for the New Year soon and I have a real sense of anticipation about getting back to some serious and enjoyable drawing after doing nothing much over the Christmas holidays. This got me thinking about the act of creating and some of the risks that this entails. So, I’m going spend a bit of time making sure that you can spot these and then carry on creating.

Read more →
14 January 2016
Art Matters
Lesson 4 - What Colour is That… (Exactly)?
24 October 2015
Art Matters, Lessons
Lesson 4 - What Colour is That… (Exactly)?
24 October 2015
Art Matters, Lessons

Colour clearly matters hugely to most visual artists, in fact you could neatly describe most paintings as carefully (or not so carefully) orchestrated patches of colour on canvas or paper, and leave it at that.

Read more →
24 October 2015
Art Matters, Lessons
how water colour works
1 August 2015
Art Matters, Lessons
Lesson 3 - The Paper You Paint On and How Watercolour Works
1 August 2015
Art Matters, Lessons

To make an informed judgement about which paper(s) to use, it is hugely helpful to know how watercolours work and what makes them so different from other mediums like gouache, acrylic and oils.

Read more →
1 August 2015
Art Matters, Lessons
Lesson 2 - Watercolour brush reviews and why you can’t tell a brush by looking at its handle
14 July 2015
Lessons
Lesson 2 - Watercolour brush reviews and why you can’t tell a brush by looking at its handle
14 July 2015
Lessons
Read more →
14 July 2015
Lessons
Lesson 1 - Why Palettes Matter and Tubes are Best
8 June 2015
Lessons
Lesson 1 - Why Palettes Matter and Tubes are Best
8 June 2015
Lessons

Surprisingly, many books on watercolour technique almost completely ignore the question of what you should mix your colours in, leaving the beginner to struggle on, using the lid of their first box of paints or ‘upgrading’ to a white dinner plate.

Read more →
8 June 2015
Lessons

faqs - terms and conditions - contact