Colin Bradley Art Cast

In this episode Colin is back and here to talk about his latest Dog in Shadow (featuring a neckerchief). He discusses the challenges and approach he took to doing this picture, offering advice along the way. We also discuss what he's working on next - an ambitious tiger picture.

A quick update from Steve this week while Colin's voice comes back for next week's full episode.

In this episode Colin discusses how to achieve impressionism with just Pastel Pencils. We also talk about the differences and similarities with impressionism using Stick Pastels and Pan Pastels. This leads us to talk about Colin's latest picture and his work on the background using Soft Pastel.

In this episode we discuss faber-castell discontinuing the polychromos pastel stick range and what that means for our classes moving forward. We also talk about watercolour pencils and the comparisons between coloured pencils and stand alone watercolour. Lastly we talk about Colin's latest picture of a cat and how he used different branded pencils to keep a close colour harmony within the picture.

In this week's episode Colin talks about his latest landscape challenge with a lot of foliage and bridge as the main feature. We talk about the difference between these landscapes without people in and his other landscapes which usually feature people in.

In this episode Colin talks about the appeal of doing challenging subjects that wouldn't necessarily go on your wall. In his latest picture he deviates from the usual landscapes to try something different and more challenging. Hear how this went and learn the theory behind his choices within the painting. We also discuss using PanPastels for block filling colour and combining them with pastel pencils on both PastelMat and Ingres.

In this episode Colin helps a student with their choice of background. Having already used warm and cool greys, what colour could be put into this grey background? Colin offers his advice and updates us on his newest Shadow pictures and the thrill of overcoming challenges.

On this week's episode Colin shares his advice to blending on pastelmat using colour shapers and advice if you want to try and erase mistakes. Colin also talks about the challenges he's faced with his recent shadow portraits and also a new Tiger Cub picture he's done with a beautiful depth of field.

In this episode Colin talks about how he was able to 'erase' a tree in his latest coloured pencil picture using solvent and the other colours in the trees. We also talk about his latest Shadow pictures and what makes it some of the most challenging work he's done to date. Lastly, Colin offers his advice for putting white into black tiger stripes.

In this episode Colin talks about going back to coloured pencils and a new landscape he's been working on. In his new picture there are a lot of trees and so this gives Colin an opportunity to talk about creating trees with coloured pencils and more specifically how to separate them using light and dark.