Welcome to our Autumn Newsletter and thank you to all the new subscribers! I hope you find lots of useful information in these latest Articles and reviews as well as giving the first Step by Step Coloured pencil Tutorial a go if pencils are your thing. There are also 4 new product reviews on the following: 
Clairfontaine Pastelmat paper -  A popular support that can be used for a wide variety of mediums. This article gives you a chance to see how Pastels, Coloured pencils, Watercolour pencils & Acrylic paints  work on this paper as well as finding lots of helpful information and advice here too.
Prismacolor Premier pencils - Thinking about buying some of these pencils and want to know more? This article gives lots of information about the company history, advantages & disadvantages of them, lightfast qualities and blendibility.
Derwent Graphitint pencils - In this article I offer a step by step guide of how to create a Blue Morpho Butterfly in Graphitint on Pastelmat, giving hints and tips throughout to help you get the best out of them and allowing you to see what they are able to achieve.
The final article is part of the 'Starting Out With....' guides and has been written to offer help and advice on Acrylic paints, product requirements and hints & tips for those thinking of taking up Acrylic paints as a new medium.

I hope you find these articles of interest and as always, do get in touch if you wish to request an article (or tutorial) of your own. If I have the knowledge, I am always happy to create an article or tutorial on a specific subject/product.

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Here is the first Step by Step Tutorial of Snow Leopard eye in Coloured pencils on Black Colourfix.

Plans for new Articles for the next Newsletter are in the pipeline and here is a couple of them that will be included, these will be reviews of the Ursus Coloured paper and the Unison Pastels. There will also be another tutorial coming too so do keep an eye out for that. Remember you can always get in touch if there is a specific Article/product you would like to read about.