Generated by All in One SEO v4.9.9, this is an llms.txt file, used by LLMs to index the site. # Paul Priestley Art Learn to How to Draw or learn about Art History ## Sitemaps - [XML Sitemap](https://paulpriestleyart.com/sitemap.xml): Contains all public & indexable URLs for this website. ## Posts - [3 Things an Artist Needs](https://paulpriestleyart.com/3-things-an-artist-needs/) - There are 3 things an artist needs to become an artist. This page will explore artistic style, developing artistic skills and much more - [Understanding Colour Mixing](https://paulpriestleyart.com/understanding-colour/) - learn how to mix colours and understand basic colour mixing to create pure primary colours. Colour mixing for beginners and those with more artistic ability - [Colour Mixing Idea](https://paulpriestleyart.com/colour-mixing-idea/) - Colour mixing is an important element of painting. Painters learn what terms such as value and saturation mean and how they help to create feeling in paintings - [Acrylic Painting Tips](https://paulpriestleyart.com/acrylic-painting-tips/) - Acrylic paint is a flexible medium. Learn lots of ways to extend acrylic paint to make paintings more creative and make collage - [What to do when your Mind is Blank](https://paulpriestleyart.com/what-to-do-when-your-mind-is-blank/) - Creative ways to get the ideas flowing when your mind is blank. interesting ideas to help drawing and painting get of to a great start - [What you see, or what you know?](https://paulpriestleyart.com/what-you-see-or-what-you-know/) - What you see or what you know, artists have a choice. Both methods of drawing and painting produce very different outcomes. Very creative. ## Pages - [Home](https://paulpriestleyart.com/) - Paul Priestley Art - artist, teacher. See his painting, learn to Draw and Paint and explore the wonderful world of Art History through exciting art tutorials - [How to Draw Landscape](https://paulpriestleyart.com/how-to-draw-landscape/) - Learn how to draw landscape using just three tones. How to create depth in a landscape using line, shading and texture. Step by step tuition. - [Basic Drawing Techniques](https://paulpriestleyart.com/basic-drawing-techniques/) - Learn basic drawing techniques for beginners, easy drawing techniques with a pencil covering use of line, how to use shading with this easy drawing tutorial - [Famous Female Artists](https://paulpriestleyart.com/famous-female-artists/) - Female artists have made a great contribution to art history but have been largely ignored in the past. My videos look at a number of famous female artists - [20th Century Artists](https://paulpriestleyart.com/20th-century-artists/) - The famous 20th century artists who created modern art. These artists created Cubism, Expressionism, Surrealism and many more art movements - [19th Century Artists](https://paulpriestleyart.com/19th-century-artists/) - 19th century artists began to break the traditions of art to lay the foundations of modern art. Artists such as Monet and Cezanne were the driving forces. - [About Us](https://paulpriestleyart.com/about-us/) - All you ever wanted to know about Paul Priestley Art including drawing and painting tutorials and brilliant art history videos aimed at beginners - [Art Blog](https://paulpriestleyart.com/art-blog/) - Art blogs will give you lots of hints and tips about drawing and painting and art materials. As well as insights into art history and artists - [Art History School](https://paulpriestleyart.com/art-history-school/) - Learn about the lives and work of famous artists with my art tutorials. Art history school provides lots of info about artists their lives and their paintings - [shop](https://paulpriestleyart.com/shop/) - This shop displays the paintings and drawings of artist Paul Priestley. All work is for sale and can be posted to most parts of the world - [Watercolour Painting](https://paulpriestleyart.com/watercolour-painting/) - Learn the basic techniques of watercolour painting including wet on wet and wet on dry painting. beginners to watercolor painting will learn to paint - [How to Draw with Coloured Pencils](https://paulpriestleyart.com/how-to-draw-with-coloured-pencils/) - Learn how to use coloured pencils, learn colour mixing, ways to blend colours and how to create edges and outlines. Create great coloured pencil drawings - [How to Draw Still Life](https://paulpriestleyart.com/drawing-still-life/) - Learn how to draw still life with this easy drawing art tutorial. These drawing videos show how to draw accurately a still life drawing - [How to Draw People](https://paulpriestleyart.com/how-to-draw-people/) - Learning how to draw people can be hard, but it is easy if you can understand how proportion works when drawing figures. Lots of drawing ideas to - [How to Draw Animals](https://paulpriestleyart.com/how-to-draw-animals/) - Learn how to draw animals by starting with drawing simple shapes and adding light and shade to create a three dimensional drawing, dogs, frogs and others - [How to Draw a Face](https://paulpriestleyart.com/how-to-draw-a-face/) - Learn how to draw a face. Learn to draw a nose, mouth and other parts of the face in proportion. Simple method for draw a face in proportion - [How to be Creative](https://paulpriestleyart.com/how-to-be-creative/) - How to be creative is difficult but there are ways to increase creativity and imagination. Lots of interesting ideas and drawing techniques to explore - [Drawing Edges and Outlines](https://paulpriestleyart.com/drawing-edges-and-outlines/) - Learn how to draw using edges and outlines and to create more three dimensional drawings using these simple drawing techniques. Drawing edges is easy - [Privacy Policy](https://paulpriestleyart.com/privacy-policy/) - This page contains the Privacy Policy of Paul Priestley Art. - [Drawing School](https://paulpriestleyart.com/drawing-school/) - Learn to draw with these wonderful drawing tutorials. Learn the basic techniques of drawing from our drawing videos, designed especially for beginners. - [My Art Work](https://paulpriestleyart.com/my-art-work/) - Art work created by Paul Priestley is displayed here, some are semi abstract acrylic paintings other paintings explore texture, shape and space in novel ways. - [Artist's Block](https://paulpriestleyart.com/artists-block/) - All artists experience artist's block as some stage. Here you'll find lots of interesting ideas to release your creativity and imagination - [Drawing Critique](https://paulpriestleyart.com/drawing-critique/) - Want a drawing critique? For just £7 or $9 send me a drawing once a month and I'll give you a simple step by step critique of your drawing - [Classic Videos](https://paulpriestleyart.com/classic-videos/) - Classic videos covers my most popular drawing tutorials and my art history videos. These art videos have proved very popular with people all over the world - [Classic Video 4 - Frida Kahlo](https://paulpriestleyart.com/classic-video-4-frida-kahlo/) - Learn about the amazing life of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, married twice to Diego Rivera, she explored her own physical and health issues through her painting - [Classic Video 3 - Draw a Pot](https://paulpriestleyart.com/classic-video-3-draw-a-pot/) - Learn how to draw a pot using graphite and pencil. this is a classic video on drawing techniques, shading, creating edges and much more - [Classic Video 2 - Gustav Klimt](https://paulpriestleyart.com/classic-video-2-gustav-klimt/) - This classic art history video covers the life of the famous artist Gustav Klimt. The great painter of the Austrian Secession and painter of the Kiss - [Classic Video 1 - Drawing](https://paulpriestleyart.com/classic-video1/) - This classic drawing video is one of my most successful videos. It's been enjoyed by many people around the world and helped improve their drawing skills - [Contact Us](https://paulpriestleyart.com/contact-us/) - Contact us Paul Priestley art for drawing and painting and art history tutorials that will inspire and inform. Beginners and those new to art will benefit ## Products - [Green Peppers](https://paulpriestleyart.com/product/green-peppers/) - This is an abstracted painting inspired by numerous drawings of cut green peppers. It was created using brushes, rollers and acrylic pens. - [Falling Mushrooms with Vase and Spoon](https://paulpriestleyart.com/product/falling-mushrooms-with-vase-and-spoon/) - Falling Mushrooms with Vase and Spoon is an original still life painting by Paul Priestley painted with acrylic paint on canvas - [Vase with Lilies and Onion](https://paulpriestleyart.com/product/vase-with-lilies-and-onion/) - Vase with Lilies and Onion is an acrylic on box canvas, still life painting by artist Paul Priestley It is signed and dated by the artist - [Royal Doulton Vase with Apple](https://paulpriestleyart.com/product/royal-doulton-vase-with-apple/) - Still Life Painting by Paul Priestley - Royal Doulton Vase with Apple - Acrylic on Box Canvas - [The small Fishing Village of Watchet](https://paulpriestleyart.com/product/watchet/) - The painting is created on canvas 101cm x 76cm (40" x 30"). This painting requires a frame, please note framing is not supplied. Medium is Acrylic Paint. Signed and dated by the artist Paul Priestley. Shipping charges will be calculated at checkout. This painting is of small fishing village in Somerset, UK created by Paul Priestley - [Royal Doulton vase with Flowers](https://paulpriestleyart.com/product/doulton-vase-with-flowers/) - The painting is created on a box canvas 50cm x 40 cm x 4cm. Framing is not required. Medium is Acrylic Paint. Signed and dated by the artist Paul Priestley. Shipping charges will be calculated at checkout. - [Vase with Pepper and Paint](https://paulpriestleyart.com/product/vase-with-pepper-and-paint/) - Still Life with Pepper and Paint is a painting created by artist Paul Priestley and is signed and dated by the artist ## Categories - [Using Colour](https://paulpriestleyart.com/category/using-colour/) - This section covers everything you need to understand colour mixing. Complementary colour, tertiary colour even analogous colour is all discussed. - [Art: Hints and Tips](https://paulpriestleyart.com/category/art-hints-and-tips/) - Ideas and tips to improve your painting and drawing skills ## Tags - [colour mixing](https://paulpriestleyart.com/tag/colour-mixing/) - [color mixing](https://paulpriestleyart.com/tag/color-mixing/) - [understanding colour](https://paulpriestleyart.com/tag/understanding-colour/) - [primary colours](https://paulpriestleyart.com/tag/primary-colours/) - [Acrylic paint](https://paulpriestleyart.com/tag/acrylic-paint/) - [painting tips](https://paulpriestleyart.com/tag/painting-tips/) - [creativity](https://paulpriestleyart.com/tag/creativity/) - [how to start drawing](https://paulpriestleyart.com/tag/how-to-start-drawing/) - [art](https://paulpriestleyart.com/tag/art/) - [what we see](https://paulpriestleyart.com/tag/what-we-see/) - [artist](https://paulpriestleyart.com/tag/artist/) ## Product categories - [Still Life Painting](https://paulpriestleyart.com/product-category/still-life-painting/) - All the paintings displayed here are the original work of Paul Priestley - [Non Figurative Painting](https://paulpriestleyart.com/product-category/non-figurative-painting/) - Non Figurative Painting by Paul Priestley ## Product tags - [painting](https://paulpriestleyart.com/product-tag/painting/) - [Still Life painting](https://paulpriestleyart.com/product-tag/still-life-painting/)