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Paula Henchell • Oil Painting Step-By-Step • Flower Fairy

Updated: Nov 18, 2020

Leisure Painter Magazine - August 2014

We are always proud to showcase the talents and achievements of our art instructors. Paula has been teaching at Swinton's for six years now, and in this time has honed her skills, in teaching and in her art, to great heights.


Follow her painting process in the latest of her articles published in Leisure Painter Magazine (August 2014), where she outlines how to achieve the illusion of depth, what colours to use for skin tones, how to attain glowing colours by glazing and create visual interest by building up areas of detail.


Enjoy the demonstration and don't forget to leave a comment below. Paula loves the attention :)

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