I thought it was about time I read up on urban sketching. Even if I'd not been given those markers for Christmas, I was planning on heading out at...
Year: 2019
Winsor & Newton Promarkers
These beasts were waiting for me on Christmas morning. They're all Winsor & Newton Promarkers with a chisel head at one end and a pointy one...
Nathan
This is the result of one of the exercises in Keys To Drawing by Bert Dodson. It's a portrait of one of my kids in the style of Henri Matisse. I...
Keys To Drawing, Bert Dodson – Book Review
I've made it to the end of Bert's book at last. At 224 pages long, it's huge. The first five chapters were fantastic. They're on contour...
Summer 2019 Poll Results
Here are the results of the latest poll. Hidden Village came out equal top. Otherwise no big surprises really. People are still welcome to vote...
Summer 2019 Poll
The nights are fair drawin' in and I don't think I'll be out in the garden painting much more this year, so I think it's time for another painting...
Something Different For Christmas?
It's just over ten weeks to Christmas. If you wanted to buy something different, have you thought about a painting? If you press "For Sale"on the...
Zoltan Szabo’s 70 Favourite Watercolor Techniques – Book Review
Another book review. Today it's Zoltan Szabo's 70 Favourite Watercolor (sic) Techniques. I bought this a couple of days ago after spotting that...
Drawing On The Right Side Of The Brain, Betty Edwards – Book Review
I was hopeless at drawing just two weeks ago but you'll have seen in my last couple of posts that this has changed and it's all down to this book....
Father And Son
That review of Drawing On The Right Side Of The Brain is coming soon, I promise!
Drawing On The Right Side Of The Brain – Progress Update
I still have one book from my birthday left to read and review. It's Drawing On The Right Side Of The Brain by Betty Edwards. I'm about 40% of...
DNA
And here's the second of the day. This is all out abstract. I cracklepasted a board a couple of days ago (with watercolour ground applied to the...
Schneesturm
Two paintings today, both on cracklepasted board and both with the help of acrylic inks to bring out the cracks. This is the first. This one...
Light And Shade In Watercolour, Hazel Soan – Book Review
I feel so guilty for saying this, because I do like all her other books in my collection, but this is a clunker from Hazel. I was hoping that this...
Making Color Sing, Jeanne Dobie – Book Review
160 pages, paperback. So what's in this book then? Well, the first 100 pages are about colour. What to have in your palette, some colour mixing...
Key Street, Florida
First things first. This painting was inspired by a photo by Harvey Jones that I saw on the BBC website. He has a Flickr account...
How To Draw Animals, Jack Hamm – Book Review
It's another Jack Hamm book, a 120-page paperback about drawing animals. Just like the Jack Hamm book on people and faces, this isn't a book to...
Stormy Abstract
And here's my second effort of the day. Another with a specially prepared crackle paste surface. This time, the special guest in the surface was...
The Hills Are Alive
I think it must have been four days ago when I prepared a couple of crackle paste surfaces for painting. I started painting on them yesterday but...
Bramble’s
Today's job was to prepare a couple of experimental crackle paste surfaces to use later in the week but I found myself pining to do some painting,...