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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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 artwor

https://www.artworkshopwithpaul.com/art-painting-drawing-tutorials https://www.patreon.com/artworkshopwithpaul/collections https://www.vimeo.com/artworkshopwithpaul/vod_pages PAUL TAGGART’S ESSENTIAL SKETCHING & DRAWING and PAINTING GUIDES Eighteen-video, box-sets, covering oils, watercolours, acrylics and pencils - for anyone starting out on their journey – or for those who already enjoy producing artworks and want to switch mediums. Or, for anyone who loves to draw and pa

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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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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

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