I got a really nice email this morning from someone who painted along with one of my tutorials. It reminded me of something I believe pretty strongly — especially for beginners and returning artists. You don’t learn painting by thinking about it. You learn by having a brush in your hand. Something else happens too… time disappears. You stop thinking about everything else and you’re just there, making marks, mixing colour, figuring things out. Before you know it 3 hours has passed by. Artists call it “the zone”. It doesn’t always show up — but when it does, it’s magic. If you’ve been putting painting off lately, this is your nudge. Even 20 minutes counts. Cheers, Ben (Heff)

G'day Legends In this short tutorial I use a larger brush on a small canvas. This gives a loose almost expressionist style and stops you getting bogged down into the detail. Which is fine if you want to create a realism piece. That's not what this vid is about tho. It's a crafty design that I actually put a little pouch on the back so I could ad potpourri to make it smell nice while on the counter or desk or wherever you have it on display. I dont go into that here but you'll get the drift. Not hard not easy but for those of you wanting to ease back into painting it's perfect. Cheers Heff.

G'day Legends. Now I'm pretty rough around the edges but I do have faith! I'm not a Catholic but considering it's Good Friday here in good ole Australia I thought I'd dig up an old painting tutorial I did for YT a few years back. Although I did it for Christmas I think it befits the Easter message of the cross so ignore Merry chrissy and think happy Easter , he he. I use splatters masking tape and even a ruler for this one. Get amongst it and I'll see you over there. Happy Easter and remember, Jesus, he's the reason for the season! Cheers Heff.

G'day Legends. In this 10 minute time lapse I take on the master, Joseph Zbukvic. I try to re create one of his amazing watercolours in acrylics. I have come to really love acrylics not only for the fact they're non toxic, don't smell and have no harmful odours and have I mentioned water clean up? But they are also very versatile. They can replicate an oil a water colour and dry so fast the brush sometimes sticks to the canvas mid stroke he he he. hopefully this gives some entertainment and some useful tips to get a brush in your hand, Heff.