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Top Tips for Students starting art courses this September

September is just around the corner and, despite weeks of doodling and procrastinating, education is firmly back on the calendar.[…]

I’ve been urban sketching for around six years now. I started when I saw an article about Birmingham Urban Sketchers[…]

Summer is here and that means the flowers are at their finest – full of bold colours and beautiful shapes,[…]

Last year saw two French artists win awards as part of the Derwent Art Prize 2018. France Bizot was awarded[…]

“I like your watercolours”, someone tweeted when I posted some of my Scotland sketches on my Twitter feed. “Er …[…]

Art has served me well throughout my lifetime. Not necessarily for profit, mind you. Any artist knows that is not[…]

Sometimes an opportunity comes along that it’d be silly to turn down. I’ve been working with Derwent since I began[…]

Gearing up to enter the Derwent Art Prize 2020? If so, then before you get your entry in, take a[…]

After trying different mediums for around three years, I can say that I developed a special feeling for graphites. When[…]

People in China believe that lanterns symbolise a bright future, so Derwent’s Inktense pencils were an obvious choice for this[…]