Isabel Crause is a self-taught artist and freelance writer from Cape Town. Her art explores the beauty of the unknown through the fluidity of watercolour and ink – creating abstract landscapes and botanicals painted in a free, intuitive style that allows the work take on a life of its own.

Helen Walne is an award-winning underwater photographer, writer and editor who spends every free moment submerged in Cape Town’s kelp forest. She is self-taught and aims to showcase the vibrant life below the ocean so we might strive to be better guardians of this unique ecosystem. She is also fond of dreaming up narratives for the undersea creatures she encounters, which often inexplicably turn nudibranchs into failed poets and octopus into whisky-drinking tango dancers.

In this tutorial we will see how to easily remove the white background from a previously scanned paper drawing.