Guardian painting tutorials

 

Painting by Fiona Rae, one of the tutors on the Guardian course

Look here for some great tutorials on painting,  thanks to the Guardian.

I increasingly realise that painting is JUST ONE ART MEDIUM.  Easy to forget this simple truth since painting sdtill seems to have iconic status for the majority of people, and is often stuck in a visual form that was current about 100 years ago or more.   OK it is overshadowed by the brilliant creative spirits, from the Renaissance onwards, for whom it was THE way of making art. And it is a familiar medium which we can easily live with in our own houses.  But now we have so many more options.

Painting anyway remains for me a challenge, a kind of visual gym where I can work on the basics of tone and form and colour relations.