How-to

It’s time to pick up a pencil and learn how to draw the perfect eye with these 5 simple tips. Whether you consider yourself to be a doodler or an artist, these tips will guide you through how to draw the perfect eye. Master sketching, shading and drawing with useful tips and tricks!

Whether you want to learn hand building techniques or wheel throwing skills, discover how to make ceramics using the right clay, tools and technique. Explore the difference between hand building and wheel throwing and learn how to make pottery with these pottery making methods.

Calligraphy is a beautiful skill that is easy to get lost in. If you’ve ever found yourself admiring beautiful works of calligraphy online wishing you could do the same, this is the post for you.

This Obby Project has been brought to us by Gabriela Szulman. Gabriela is an extremely talented mixed media artist, who creates greetings cards, furniture, scarves and everything in between that are inspired by nostalgia, memory and a love of all things vintage.

In jewellery making, there are so many different materials used to get different effects. Gemstones are the most popular, which are then set into precious metals, but you also find jewellery made just from precious metals or with other trinkets such as coins.

Hi! I’m Emma from Emma Jewell Crafts popping into the Obby blog to give you a lovely Valentine's DIY!

We have lots of oil painting classes on Obby. To help you decide which is the right class for you, we are taking a further look at some of the most famous oil painting techniques that you can explore.

In our pottery classes, you either use a pottery wheel or your hands to shape the clay. The pottery wheel, however, is the most common conception when it comes to the art of pottery.

Decoupage is essentially the cutting out of existing designs in intricate patterns and pasting them to simulate painting on various surfaces including wood, glass and metal.

Obby Projects are a series of quick DIY recipes, craft ideas and DIY projects that you can complete at home. Written by our teachers or customers, this month's is from Kate Marsden from Creative Happy London and she shows us how to make a simple 'Snazzy Peg Bag.'

The 20th century saw printing arrive a little more in the pop culture art scene. It was affordable and produced bold and reliable results. However, it was never an artists focus, with it still taking a back seat to painting and sculpture.

You may have heard of pottery as a craft or art form, and you may even have heard of wheel throwing. In this pottery throwing guide, we discuss all things wheel throwing to help you better understand this fun, relaxing and hypnotic activity.

We asked Cassie Steele from the brilliant website, Stitch and Sew to tell us what she believes are the benefits of learning to sew and why sewing is an important skill. Discover the importance of learning sewing and tailoring techniques and how this skill is beneficial and rewarding!

'What is a terrarium?' is something you may have asked yourself, or friends in the past. A terrarium, by definition, is usually a sealed glass container containing soil and plants. They also need to be open-able so they can be maintained.

Hand building ceramics is the oldest method of making pots, plates and other items out of clay. It involved creating the shapes without the help of a potter's wheel, instead just using your hands and simple tools. Discover slab building techniques and other hand building methods!