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I am a Brand Ambassador for the Portable Painter watercolour palettes, and they have just released a DISCOUNT CODE for anyone wanting to...

Here’s my plein air painting kit that I’m taking with me to Art in the Open at Wexford, Ireland next week. I’ll be painting outdoors in...

I suspect that you will have used a viewfinder of some kind or another to help you to choose your view and isolate your subject. Perhaps...

How the right frame creates sales I don’t know if you have ever tried to sell your paintings, or if you give much thought to the way you...

I’m very proud to have just become a Brand Ambassador for the Portable Painter palettes, along with Sarah Burns . This means that we are...

Over the last few years I have made and re-made a number of easels and boxes for painting en plein air . And I’ve always tried to move...

Do you never have enough space for new colours on your sketching palette? This is a common problem, so let me show you one neat solution....

I’ve been playing around with ways to use the Portable Painter palette so that I can use it for gouache outdoors. The problem has always...

Every so often I come across a new idea which in principal will make both life and plein air painting simpler. Recently I came across two...

Summer holidays beckon and I’ve once again been checking out my plein air kits so that I can take the bare minimum with me. I was just...

I’m very excited to be able to share with you my new website and arty adventure! For many years I have been searching for the perfect...

For a couple of years I abandoned watercolour painting entirely as I was concentrating on my oils, but then I rediscovered the thrill of...

I was asked a few days ago by a reader of this blog if I could share the colours I use on my palette and how I make some of the colour...

Come along with me as we take a walk with the dogs into the olive groves and paint in a semi-abstract way. September 2022. A hot day in...

Here’s one simple idea for an ultra-lightweight plein air sketching kit. I recently took just these few items with me as I travelled...

I have just returned from tutoring on a painting holiday in the beautiful Cotswolds in the UK. The area is full of quaint old villages,...

I am on Instagram (#andywalker.art) and last night I was flicking through some of the artists that I follow there and came across a free...

I made this viewfinder a couple of years ago and it is such a simple way of framing a still life. Take a look at the short video below to...

I’ve been playing around with easel and pochade designs for many years, always looking for the perfect set-up. And I think I may now have...

I am falling in love with gouache paint. That may sound like a strange thing to say, but I think it’s true! Over the years I have painted...