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Our first scribblings with any art materials, whether it is that standard pencil, or a tin of the cheapest watercolours, can lead to a lifetime of creativity, at whatever age we start. It doesn’t matter whether or not the artist in us continues to develop for the pleasure of it, or for our professional lives – it becomes obsessive and the act of creating art is also therapeutic on so many levels. As I have written on many occasions, I should know, for it is through my earlies

Greetings from the Highlands of Scotland and our Steading studio, where we have been as busy as ever working on plans for 2025. However, not too busy to take some time out, getting out and about looking for subjects that would suit Module 2 when we start filming this summer for our newest tutorials, Paul Taggart’s Essential Sketching/Drawing and Painting Guides. Whilst on a walk through a forest, high on a hill, Eileen and I spotted a beautiful lone tree, the perfect subject

Gifting Patreon Membership We’re delighted to let everyone know that Patreon has listened to its creator community and now includes the facility to offer our video tutorials as ‘gifts’ – so that loved-ones, can not only surprise family and friends with art materials, but the wherewithal to learn how to start out on their journey into creating art. So if you would like to let your loved-ones know that a gift of our art tutorials would go down a treat with you, then simply gu

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From Us to You – please play me by clicking on the image Another tumultuous and turbulent year has passed. Our hearts go out to all those who have faced challenges throughout 2024 and continue to do so. Life certainly ‘twists’ and ‘turns’ and we have had our fair this past year share; but yet, these have been as nothing, when compared to others. This time last year, we were waiting to get back into our Steading studio, having taken over our dining-room, as a temporary studi

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The Art of Sketching & Drawing - For The Artist in Everyone Greetings from our studio – where Autumn seems to have started earlier, with chilly temperatures requiring warming drinks and the firing-up of the log-burner as we film and produce our latest batch of art tutorials. Right on cue, a few days ago, Eileen and I witnessed the ‘gathering’ of a large flock of swallows within the perimeter of our studio and homestead – preparing to take-off for their flight southwards to t