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Category: Animals

Festive Squirrel Card Using Derwent Metallic and Inktense Paints by Julia Woning

18th December 2020 Derwentart Animals, Archive (2010-2015), Christmas, Christmas, Illustration, Inktense Paint Pan Set, Metallic Pan Set, Projects, Projects, Recent blogs, Wildlife & pets

It’s almost Christmas and here I will show you how you can create another lovely Christmas card with the Metallic[…]

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Red Panda Drawing with Lightfast Pencils by Alice Hibbert

25th September 2020 Derwentart Animals, Archive (2010-2015), How-to tips, Lightfast, step by step, Wildlife & pets

My favourite thing to draw is animals so I grabbed my Derwent Lightfast Pencils and decided to draw this autumnal[…]

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Bird with Graphitint Paint Pan Pocket Set by Julia Woning

31st July 2020 Derwentart Animals, Graphitint Paint, Recent blogs, step by step, Wildlife & pets

Like all of my pieces, the best place to start is with a sketch of my chosen animal. After I[…]

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Creating Realistic Animals Using Pastel Pencils With Alice Hibbert

8th May 2020 Derwentart Animals, Coloured Pencils, Fine Art, Pastel Pencils, Portraits, Projects, step by step, Top Tips, Wildlife & pets

During uncertain times it is important to keep busy and creative; inspiration can be difficult to find at home but[…]

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Drawing a Macaw with Derwent Inktense Paint Pan Set by Julia Woning

10th April 2020 Derwentart Animals, Archive (2010-2015), Inktense Paint Pan Set, Projects, Recent blogs, step by step

When the world’s a little grey, the perfect thing to do is add your own colour and brighten it up![…]

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Using the Derwent Metallic Pan Set on Black paper with Julia Woning

3rd April 2020 Derwentart Animals, Metallic, Metallic Pan Set, Recent blogs, Spring, step by step

Following my recent blog with the Derwent Inktense Paint Pan Set, I was kindly sent the new Metallic Paint Pan[…]

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Drawing a Goldfish with the new Metallic Pan Set by Kerry Bennett

13th March 2020 Derwentart Animals, Metallic Pan Set, Metallic Pencils, Spring, Tonal values, Top Tips

Drawing animals that are underwater can be a really exciting project. It really gives you an opportunity to think about[…]

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Creating texture, shape and tone with Inktense Paint Pan Set and Metallic Pan Set by Kerry Bennett

6th March 2020 Derwentart Animals, Fine Art, Inktense Paint Pan Set, Lightfastness, Line Makers, Metallic, Spring, Wellness

After preparing a 30cm x 30cm box canvas with 3 coats of watercolour ground, I drew a duck’s portrait with[…]

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How I created Derwent’s new catalogue cover using the new Derwent Metallic Pan Set by Clare Mills

21st February 2020 Derwentart Animals, Behind the brand, Catalogues, Metallic, Mindfulness, Paint Pans

When Derwent approached me to work with them on creating artwork to showcase their new metallic watercolour paints, I didn’t[…]

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A fun festive challenge with Derwent Lightfast and Jess Pritchard

27th December 2019 Derwentart Animals, Christmas, Lightfast, Lightfastness, Projects, Recent blogs

Is it possible to create a drawing using no more than the set of 24 Derwent Lightfast pencils? This was[…]

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