Guide to paintingArtColour: optical colour mixingHere, you will paint small coloured dots side by side, which will enable you to create areas of scintillating colourDuration One hour
Materials Palette, palette knife, a range of brushes, three sheets of primed white paper, paints: cadmium lemon; cadmium yellow; cadmium red; alizarin crimson; cobalt blue; ultramarine blue
What will I learn?When two hues are placed side by side or on top of each other, your vision produces the illusion of a third colour - this is called optical mixing.
Crystal Palace fear Cheick Doucour is out for season with achilles injury | Crystal Palace
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Jan Berry | | The Guardian
ObituaryJan BerryTeen dream and surf-pop starI n 1962, the music careers of Jan Berry, who has died aged 62, and Dean Torrence were floundering. Berry had recorded a hit, Jennie Lee in 1958, as half of 'Jan and Arnie', and another, Baby Talk in 1959, with Torrence, as Jan and Dean, but after that, there had been relatively little success.
Baby Talk had been arranged by trumpeter Herb Alpert and produced by Lou Adler.
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Matthew WarchusReviewComedy Theatre, LondonI'll say this much: David Hirson's piece of Broadway-originating, pastiche Molière seems less smugly self-admiring than it did on its first appearance in 1992. That may be because Hirson now gives the action an uninterrupted flow; it may be because Mark Rylance virtuosically adorns the current cast; but I suspect the real change stems from director Matthew Warchus, who has discovered a hidden tension in what at first seemed a dramatically inert piece.
Lupe Ontiveros, 69, dies of liver cancer | Film
Film This article is more than 11 years oldLupe Ontiveros, 69, dies of liver cancerThis article is more than 11 years oldSelena co-star Jacob Vargas pays tribute to Mexican-American actor's 'great contribution to film and TV'Lupe Ontiveros, the Mexican-American star of As Good as it Gets and the TV show Desperate Housewives, has died of liver cancer. She was 69.
Born Guadalupe Moreno, Ontiveros's Hollywood career spanned four decades and included roles in the 80s classic The Goonies and the 2002 film Real Women Have Curves, for which she won a special jury prize at the Sundance film festival.
Twitchers and groppers: when birdwatching turns ugly | Patrick Barkham
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The psychedelic ibogaine can treat addiction. The race is on to cash in
Ibogaine comes from Gabon’s iboga plant, which has incentivized poaching. Photograph: Marta ParszeniewIbogaine comes from Gabon’s iboga plant, which has incentivized poaching. Photograph: Marta ParszeniewDrugsClinics and scientists around the world aim to turn a profit from a powerful Gabonese plant – but it’s an ethical and legal wild west
Lynn Smith was lying in a bed on the third floor of a beachfront house, unable to move her body from the neck down.
Hot buttons: why fashion houses are getting into video games
GamesAs players spend more and more time and money in the digital hangout spaces provided by video games, it makes sense for fashion brands to join them there – opening up exciting worlds of rule-breaking design
In December 2015, the revered French fashion house Louis Vuitton made a surprise announcement about the advertising campaign for its forthcoming spring-summer collection. The new range of clothes and accessories would be modelled on screen and in the pages of glossy magazines not by a famous actor or popstar but by a video game character: the pink-haired warrior Lightning from Final Fantasy XIII.
The Confession by Jessie Burton review an understated triumph
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The public has a right to art: the radical joy of Keith Haring
The ObserverKeith HaringColourful and cartoonish, accessible and political, Keith Haring’s work has never gone out of fashion. But what drove him?
‘He has changed things’: Keith Haring remembered by those who knew him
Though he died in 1990, in many ways Keith Haring is still alive. His art is everywhere. There are Haring T-shirts, Haring shoes, Haring chairs. You can buy Haring baseball hats and badges and baby-carriers and playing cards and stickers and keyrings.