Please play me by clicking on the image We bring you New Year Greetings from our studio in the Highlands of Scotland where, in common with many across the Northern Hemisphere, we look out over our snow-draped garden. Although we are some two weeks past mid-winter and the afternoons are getting lighter, we nevertheless start to feel a hot-chocolate or milky-coffee is in order once the light starts to fade around three-thirty in the afternoon – which is when I take a break from

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Greetings from our studio – where Autumn has set in and we are to be found working away, warmed by the radiating heat of our log-burning stove. One of our daily rituals is to discuss the day’s news over breakfast and oh-so-happily, earlier this week, the sole topic of conversation was a heart-warming story – one with which we agree wholeheartedly, one that we know will strike a chord with everyone who shares our passion for art. At long last, a properly conducted academic stu

We have always believed in the power of creativity, not only for the creator, but, just as importantly, have also witnessed first-hand the positive reactions in anyone viewing the results of someone’s creative efforts. Like us, you will no doubt have heard many and varied reactions – most common amongst them being “I cannot draw a straight line”,  or “I haven’t got a creative bone in my body”.   If either of those reactions was true, then none of us would be creating our artw

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Would you like to share your passion for creating art with a loved-one or friend? Are you happy to introduce them to our art tutorials on Patreon or Vimeo? On Patreon you can surprise them with a gift of one month, or multiple months, up to a year’s worth of membership. For Vimeo – we can supply Gift Cards from our studio – see  how-to below. Gifting Patreon Membership Patreon now includes the facility to offer membership to our video tutorials as ‘gifts’ – so that loved-ones

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