Colin Bradley Art Cast

This week Colin offers his advice to students tackling pet and human portraits! 

In this podcast we dissect Colin’s latest picture and discuss the various techniques and pastel applications that went into creating the effects we see on paper.

In this episode Colin dissects his latest portrait of a woman in a straw hat. He discusses the reason behind the choices he made, why he sticks to his golden rule of sticking to what you see and signing a picture in the medium he uses. 

In this episode Colin helps 2 of his students with their pictures as well as talking about his most recent portrait picture.

In this episode Colin talks about the predicament he faced with his recent portrait work and why he had to abandon his picture. 

In this episode Colin talks about his finished duck landscape and how he achieved such a realistic outcome. He also offers advice for a student on their dog portrait. 

In this episode Colin discusses his new picture in a challenging surround. He discusses the importance of "rehearsing" the colour applications and experimenting so you can achieve the correct tone.

In this episode Colin discusses the rock picture he has painted to help others with this tricky landscape feature.

In this episode Colin shows us his finished Sphinx Cat and the challenges he faced when drawing such an unique subject.

In this episode Colin discusses his newest challenge - a sphinx cat. We talk about how the picture's going and the techniques he using. We also discuss drawing one of the hardest features in landscape art - rocks. 

In this episode Colin reminisces about the past and when he used to demonstrate at exhibitions in London. We also discuss his latest Tulips picture and what about it makes it appealing.

In this episode Colin discusses a student's picture and the best conditions in which  to take a photograph of a pet to get the most realistic colours. We also discuss different papers for coloured pencil work and Colin's exhibition in Gravesend. 

In this episode Colin discusses his latest miniature landscape including the choices of materials and problems he encountered. 

In this episode Colin talks about his latest landscape picture and how he incorporate storytelling without the addition of people.

In this episode Colin talks about how he's fussing less on his artwork to create more original paintings. We also answer questions about which hard pastel sticks we recommend now that Faber Polychromos Pastels have been discontinued and why there is litte pastel pencil art submitted to exhibitions. 

We continue our discussion around pricing your artwork. Colin also discusses his new picture of a ginger cat.

In this episode Colin discusses his newest pastel work of a Giraffe and the part he almost missed off! We also discuss some questions from our listeners including using pastel sticks and pricing your artwork.

In this episode Colin discusses his completed Dalmatian picture and talks a little about his views on Watercolour. Lastly, he mentions turning the clocks back an hour which we quickly realised after filming that the clocks were actually going forwards So please don't turn your clocks back!

In this episode Colin discusses his new Dalmatian picture and offers advice to a student on how to improve the background of their train picture. 

In this episode Colin talks about his latest picture and where his impressionistic style fits in terms of the old masters who strived for detail and the looser impressionism that followed later.