In this episode Colin offers his advice for one of our students on how they would tackle a particularly difficult landscape picture. We also talk about one of Colin's new paintings and the challenges he encountered.

In this episode we share emails and questions from our listeners on various topics such as listening to your inner Colin, alternative papers for coloured pencil work and frustrations with watercolour.

What does Colin look for when he's looking to create a shadow picture? In this episode Colin shares his thought process and why he chooses a photograph to create a shadow picture from.

In this week's episode we discuss an email sent to us about motivation and how to find the purpose behind your artwork. 

In this episode Colin and Steve read out an email from a student, expanding on last week's discussion on the definition of an artist. We also share an update from our art shop.

In this episode Colin gives an update on his horse painting and we discuss a student's email regarding Colin's classes being "colour by numbers" and whether this is still classified as their own work. We also touch upon whether using drawing aids still makes you an artist. 

In this episode Colin discusses his Horse picture that is in process of being drawn using Pastel Pencils. He talks about the colour build up and challenges he's facing.

In this episode Colin talks about his latest pastel pencil picture of a lion.

In this episode Colin talks about his latest pastel pencil picture of a lazy bear.

In this episode Colin talks about his latest forest animal picture using Pastel Pencils.

In this Q & A episode Colin talks about future PanPastel projects, his approach to using the various brands of pastel pencils and how to do stripes on a ginger cat.

In this episode Colin discusses his latest flower painting using beautiful reds and pinks. He discusses the various effects he achieved and why this is one of his favourite paintings.

In this episode Colin discusses his boxer dog including the choices he made on the background and the challenges he faced.

In this episode Colin talks about his latest project and his approach to choosing the initial and then complimentary colours.

In this episode Colin discusses his latest challenge - drawing an Australian Shepherd dog. He also talks about a new picture he's working on and answers a viewer's question on how to get soft edges on clouds.

In this episode Colin discusses the new coloured pencil cat picture he recently finished and the challenges he faced. Watch the video version of this episode here.

We’re back! It’s been 5 months but we’re finally back with a new podcast episode. For this one we tested out a new setup using Riverside Studio, this allows us to video the podcasts and hopefully in future, stream them out live to you!

In this episode Colin talks about some experiments he's been doing. Some successful... some unsuccessful. He tells us about a new product he's been playing with and how it's lead to a new style of painting using just 5 Pastel Pencils.