Masterclass
Using Watercolour Granulation Medium with salt
Granulation Medium for watercolours can create unique effects, as we will show here, but you may not know that common table salt can also be used for stunning effects.
Exploring oil mediums
We explore two oil mediums, Artists' Painting Medium and Blending and Glazing Medium, examining the properties that make them suitable for certain purposes. For example, Artists' Painting Medium reduces viscosity...
Watercolour Blending Medium
Blending Medium for watercolour is an often-overlooked medium that will slow the drying process, making it possible to blend watercolours for longer; water alone dries much more quickly. This medium...
Glazing in oils
The art of glazing, why and how to glaze your work, is described in this masterclass. Glazing is a technique used to bring together light and dark tones, and to...
Cyanotypes with watercolour
Winsor & Newton Professional Watercolour Paper: 640 gsm is perfect for creating cyanotypes that can be hand finished with watercolour. The paper holds up well to the cyanotype photographic process...
How to use Liquin Mediums
There are five types of Liquin mediums, each will help you accelerate the drying times of oil paint; the varieties are a slightly different formulation of the original. There is...
Comparing Winton and Artists' Oil Colour ranges
In this Masterclass we compare Winsor & Newton Artists’ Oil Colours to Winton Oil Colours. Learn how pigment concentration impacts tint strength and tonal range, helping you choose the right...
Understanding black oil paint
Exploring the unique qualities of the five blacks in Winsor & Newton’s Artists’ Oil Colour, we examine Ivory, Lamp, Mars, Perylene and Blue Blacks. Ivory and Lamp Blacks are carbon-based...
Opaque and transparent pigments in oil painting
This masterclass demonstrates the differences between opaque and transparent oil colours, using a palette of primaries that includes an example of each. The colours used are Cadmium Yellow, Transparent Yellow,...
Fineliner lettering with botanical elements
Jessie Bayliss is a UK based illustrator and lettering artist who specialises in nostalgic, botanical illustration and Victorian style calligraphy. Here she demonstrates botanical lettering techniques using a variety of...
Metallic oil paint
Exploring our range of metallic oil paint, this film shows the variety that can be found in our metallics: we have 6 different metallic oil paints and an Iridescent White....