Guides & Tips

The Reeves Guides & Tips section in partnership with Walter Foster publishing will provide you with practical suggestions and advice to help you create your art.  

Are you a beginner? Then find out how to get started and what you will need to begin your artistic journey. Learn how to draw, paint, mix colour and scraperfoil. 

Established artist? Get hints and tips to help you achieve different techniques and effects across a whole range of media. Plus, view our selection of step-by-step painting guides for inspiration. 

We endeavour to inspire artists at each stage of their artistic journey. Let us help you explore your creativity. 

Exploring Media

Discovering and experimenting with media is part of every artist's journey. The Exploring Media guides offer beginning artists a great source of information for taking their first steps in a given media. 

Each guide describes the benefits and characteristics of the media, the tools you will need, suggestions for subject matter and most importantly contain all the key techniques for that media. Once you have read them you will be ready to begin your own painting and drawing adventures with confidence.

Flowers

This guide enables you to create a pastel painting of a bouquet of flowers. Not only will you learn to paint one blossom but by painting a bouquet you will be shown how to create a composition of wonderful colours.

The guide explains how to build up layers of colour and there is also a short description on why pastel colours are numbered to help you understand the value of colours from 1 - 5. This is fundamental for choosing and buying pastels to ensure that you have the right colour for your painting.

Paint by Numbers Instructions

Here is the PDF file with instructions for Paint by Numbers