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Discover the art of creating stunningly realistic animal portraits with "Drawing Animal Portraits in Coloured Pencil" by Lisa Ann Watkins, available at Artdiscount. This comprehensive guide is your key to mastering coloured pencil techniques, transforming your artistic vision into lifelike animal studies that capture personality and detail. Lisa Ann Watkins expertly leads you through every step of the process, beginning with a detailed overview of essential materials. Learn about the best coloured and watercolour pencils to use, alongside supportive tools like Pan Pastels, to build a professional-grade toolkit. The journey continues with crucial lessons on composition and preparation, teaching you how to take the perfect reference photographs and utilise digital tools for superior colour and tonal planning. Through ten beautifully presented step-by-step studies, you will acquire clear, simple techniques to bring your animal subjects to life. Focus on rendering the intricate textures of fur, the captivating sparkle in their eyes, and the subtle gloss of their noses. This book is more than just instruction; it’s an invitation to develop a deeper connection with your subject and express it through vibrant, detailed artwork. Visit Artdiscount.co.uk today to add this essential guide to your collection. Elevate your drawing skills, save on quality art supplies, and start creating animal portraits that truly breathe with life and character. Perfect for artists seeking to refine their craft with professional, accessible methods.

Jakar Chubby Brushes are perfect for encouraging little artists to get creative! These four brushes feature chunky, colourful handles that are easy to hold, and hog bristle hair, making them flexible and resilient for continuous use. Product Details: Hog bristle hair For ages 3+

Winsor & Newton Sceptre Gold II Brushes are ideal for working with watercolour and fluid oil colour. They are also suitable for use with acrylic, water-mixable oil and Alkyd fast-drying oil colour. Sceptre Gold II is a perfect combination, giving a performance close to sable at a price close to synthetic. The Sable hair has excellent spring, whilst the high quality synthetic filaments ensure the brushes are soft enough to work the colour but with a strong snap to return to the original shape. Please Note: Prices shown are for individual brushes only.

Derwent Lightfast pencils have been formulated to be 100% lightfast. The revolutionary core is resistant to prolonged colour change ensuring artwork will not fade for up to 100 years under museum conditions. Available in a carefully selected range of 36 vivid and opaque colours. Choose from a wide palette of rich and vibrant colours to realise every artistic vision. Product Details: Oil-based - Oil-based for superior control over colour layering, opaque colour with excellent blending qualities. Pigments completely integrate to form a new colour, blending like oil paint for a natural look with blending fluid. Professional Quality- Utilising superior quality pigment formulated to be 100% lightfast under museum conditions lasting for 100 years. Compatible with other mediums - Lightfast pencils can be used along side other pencils in the Derwent range and will intermix with Procolour and Coloursoft, or use along side Watercolour and Inktense pencils for vivid colour and washes. Download colour chart here

GOLDEN Fluid Acrylics are an extremely versatile paint, with vibrant, permanent, and lightfast pigments. This set contains ten 30ml bottles of paint that serve as a great resource for mixing a wide range of colours. Mixing is easy with the intuitive split primary method. Warm and cool primary colours along with other key colours allow artists to mix an extensive range of colours. These paints are perfect for water media techniques, glazing, staining, brushwork and more. Colours Included in the Acrylic Mixing Set: Benzimidazolone Yellow Light Benzimidazolone Yellow Medium Naphthol Red Light Quinacridone Magenta Phthalo Blue (Red Shade) Phthalo Blue (Green Shade) Phthalo Green (Blue Shade) Phthalo Green (Yellow Shade) Carbon Black Titanium White Please Note: Colours may vary according to availability. Fluid acrylics: creamy, levelling paints, high pigment load, ideal for pours and fine detail painting. Use with GOLDEN Fluid Matte Medium to decrease gloss without altering viscosity.

The Stephen Coates Hake Brush is a versatile tool that offers both broad strokes and fine detail. Its chisel- shaped goat hair ensures smooth, rapid paint application across large areas, making it ideal for various techniques. Product Details: Perfect for broad strokes and ideal for fine details. Smooth paint application Signature Stephen Coates Design Goat Hair Medium: 3cm Large: 4.5cm

Highly concentrated, top quality pigments - excellent lightfastness. Can be applied to all traditional oil painting supports: painter's canvas, canvas boards, prepared boards, paper for painting. Use in thin layers. Wait for the first layer to be completely dry before applying a second layer. Can be diluted with turpentine or petroleum for use with paintbrushes. Can be used on their own as a complement to oil paints. Colours Included in the Set of 6: Fluorescent Yellow 502 Orange 648 Fluorescent Pink 654 Silver 029 Gold 028 Copper 036 Please Note: Colours may vary according to availability.

Rosa Studio Palette Knives are used to create special effects in painting and decorating. The unique shapes of the Rosa Palette Knives make it possible to create varied effects for petals, flowers, leaves, grass and waves in one stroke. With their flexible steel blades, ergonomic handles, and unconventional shapes, Rosa Studio Palette Knives are perfect for experimenting with colour application and excellent for creating expressive, characterful textures. Product Details: Perfect for painting, decorative, and auxiliary works. Highly elastic soldered palette knives, even after prolonged work, do not change shape. Hardy and durable blades made of hardened steel. Made in Ukraine

Daler-Rowney Graduate Acrylic Metallic Paints Set includes 6 tubes of 75ml metallic acrylic paints. Specifically designed to provide a metallic sheen to your artwork, adding a unique and eye-catching element to your paintings. Graduate acrylic colours are ideal for students and amateurs looking for reliability and performance. These fast-drying medium-body colours are smooth, easy to use and mix well together. Graduate acrylic colours offer an impressive pigment loading.

These landscape sketchbooks from Seawhite are the perfect companion for any artist. They feature 50 sheets of Seawhite All-Media Cartridge paper, which is both acid and chlorine free, and is sized to perform with both wet and dry media. Its landscape orientation makes it perfect for capturing panoramic scenes when working en plein air. The books feature attractive, black hardback covers, with wire-o binding, that helps keep your work protected. Available in sizes A5, A4, and A3. Product Details: 100 pages/50 sheets. 160gsm All-media Cartridge Paper. Original Microline covers with rounded corners. 7/8" silver wire-o binding. 100% Vegan product. Sized to perform with wet & dry media. Acid & Chlorine free. FSC® Certified paper. Made in the UK.

The STABILO Point 88 is the perfect companion for schoolchildren, students, and professionals. The 0.4mm line width offers you a great deal of control and precision and the metal-enclosed tip provides strength and durability. For drawing you can create intricate details; for writing you can go really small with your font size. It is also perfect for use with rulers and stencils, making it ideal for precise work, structuring texts and taking notes. Product Details: Hexagonal striped design known all over the world. Metal-enclosed tip for a long lifespan. Line width 0.4 mm. Long cap-off time. Colours Included in the Set of 20: Apple Green (33) Apricot (26) Azure (57) Black (46) Blue (41) Brown (45) Crimson (50) Dark Grey (96) Dark Ochre (89) Green (36) Lilac (58) Nightblue (22) Orange (54) Pine Green (53) Pink (56) Red (40) Turquoise (51) Ultramarine (32) Violet (55) Yellow (44) Please Note: Colours may vary according to availability.