Subscribed to our website? Purchased our videos through Vimeo? Subscribed to artworkshopwithpaul on Patreon? Not received our April 2025 e-newsletter, featuring the Latest News from Paul Taggart’s Studio? To ensure we have your correct email address, please subscribe to our e-newsletter here on our website – click on the artworkshopwithpaul, Paul Taggart Fine Art or Elphen Chronicles tabs and the subscription form will appear. “Greetings and the warmest of welcomes to our

In our September 2024 e-newsletter - https://www.artworkshopwithpaul.com/so/32P7yWvcf?languageTag=en - we wrote of the release of Paul Taggart’s Essential Sketching & Drawing Guide, Module 1 Since then, we have released three more Essential Guides – covering Oil Painting, Watercolour Painting and Acrylic Painting. We had originally planned to create a series of medium-specific books under the series title ‘The Essential Guide’, inspired by one of my best-selling art tutori

We are breaking down the methods of painting, as well as sketching & drawing even further than we’ve done before, back to the bare essentials, so that whatever your level - whether a complete beginner, or someone who wants to develop your painting and/or sketching & drawing further - you will enjoy the results of working-along with the projects. Which is what Paul Taggart’s Essential Painting and, Sketching & Drawing Guides are all about We kick off with Module 1- in these

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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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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

The Power of Sketching & Drawing – to capture a memory forever Whenever I go through my many sketchbooks, each containing sketches and drawings made over the years, I am immediately taken back to that time – such is the power of sketching and drawing. These are visual journals – words in pictures, but so much more than that – they also depict the emotions of the moment, or the characteristics of the event or scene. I can recall all this and so much more, because I had to cl

Paul Taggart’s Essential Sketching & Drawing Guide – Module 1 The simplest of sketches can be jotted down on a scrap piece of paper, with whatever you have to hand by way of a drawing tool – the result doesn’t matter. It is what that sketch comes to signify, which is important – whether it serves as a visual memory, or as an inspiration for a painting. That first sketch can lead to a lifetime of creativity, which is therapeutic on so many levels – I should know, for it is th