Hints and tips from Bob Davies on using a variety of drawing materials including pencils, pen and ink, charcoal, water-soluble pencils and even erasers.

Bob Davies discusses different types of erasers, and demonstrates how easy it is to produce "shiny" metal with a 2B pencil and putty eraser and uses the same kind of eraser to add highlights to an eye.

Bob Davies compares the dip pen and the 'technical' sketching pen and some other drawing instruments, and includes a drawing demonstration.

Turner's main subjects were landscapes and seascapes. He painted historical scenes in order to incorporate these subjects. He became known for a style which incorporated an atmosphere of mist and light. In 1834 he made sketches while the Houses of Parliament were burning and made paintings in his studio based on these sketches. These paintings beautifully showed the effects of fire, light, and water.

Chuck Close explains his process of painting, and why he keeps changing the way he paints while often using the same subjects. Be sure to see Part 1.

An artist called Moose makes a 140 ft. mural (with help) in a San Francisco tunnel by cleaning instead of painting. He saw what impact a clean spot on a dirty wall could have while working as a dishwasher in a restaurant when he tried to wipe clean a spot on the wall but ended up having to clean the whole (dirty) wall.

I love the music, and also seeing so many works by Kandinsky, from recognizable portraits to many abstract but always very "emotional" works.

Interviewed by Robert Hughes on painting on site without pre-sketching or photographs

500 years of male self-portraits in Western art

Leonardo Da Vinci's life in Florence

Scientific discovery of the real face of Leonardo da Vinci by Siegfried Woldhek - on TED

The rise of modern western individualism from the 13th-14th centuries was partly shaped by glass mirrors made in Venice. Science and art were also profoundly affected by these mirrors. Leonardo da Vinci, who used mirrors, said "Don't paint things as you see them; paint what you see in a mirror." Here all this is discussed while a glassmaker makes a glass mirror using the same method that was used when they were first made in Venice.

Twenty ink drawings by Jean Vincent made between 2004 and 2006. All of the drawings were made using inexpensive pens such as Bic ballpoint pens and Sharpie markers.

Demonstration - Drawing (and painting) with India ink outdoors in Barcelona by Spanish artist.

Ink drawings made outdoors in Barcelona with India ink.

Several paintings. Mood of music seems appropriate to the quiet tone of all his paintings.