I shared a photo of today's painting on Facebook before I filled in the silhouettes. I was told I should stop there and frame it but I carried on...
Month: March 2019
Once Upon A Time In The West
After the rubbish that I put out yesterday, I was determined to paint an ink-free watercolour again as soon as possible but to do it properly,...
Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary, Where Did Your Garden Go?
For my second stripy gesso experiment, I thought I'd better try it out with inks. The gesso stripes this time are slanted, top right to bottom...
Path To The Lake
I was in an experimental mood today. I dug out the gesso and thought I'd have a go at applying it to the paper in stripes rather than all over....
Experimental Landscapes In Watercolour, Ann Blockley – Book Review
128 pages. This is a well-titled book. Any piece of artwork is an experiment. You never know how it's going to work out. Especially when you...
Learn To Paint People Quickly, Hazel Soan – Book Review
This book was 112 pages long but felt much shorter. Ah, maybe that's because it's A5 sized, meaning it's more like a 56 page long pamphlet that's...
Atmospheric Flowers In Watercolour, Jean Haines – Book Review
176 pages. This book is about Jean Haines' atmospheric style of painting as much as it's about painting flowers. Anybody serious about painting...
Painting Successful Watercolours From Photographs, Geoff Kersey – Book Review
I'm struggling to find much to say about this one. It does pretty well exactly what it says on the tin. I've not counted them but there must be...
Watercolour Painting, Tom Hoffmann – Book Review
This one was expensive but it was worth every penny. It's quite a big one at 208 pages. This feels like the definitive stage 3 in a journey that...
Painting Abstracts, Rolina Van Vliet – Book Review
Right. We're into the modern day at last. It's late 2018 and I've finally started to feel like a decent artist, producing paintings that I can...
Terry Harrison’s Complete Guide To Watercolour Landscapes – Book Review
I'm still in the dark days of being a terrible artist and only looking for book bargains, but I struck gold with this one. It's 192 pages long and...
30-Minute Landscapes, Paul Talbot-Greaves – Book Review
This is the shortest book in my collection at only 64 pages. I can only imagine it was going cheap. I was still looking only at bargains when I...
Watercolour Landscapes, Richard Taylor – Book Review
At the time I bought this book I was only painting landscapes and my artwork was terrible. It was so bad that I was loathe to spend money on books...
Learn To Paint Watercolour With The Experts, Crawshaw/Bellamy/Ranson/Soan – Book Review
This is a weird one that I'd forgotten I even owned. It looks big at 224 pages but when you open it up, you find that it's made up of four short...
Big Brush Watercolour, Ron Ranson – Book Review
This one's one step up from Frank Clarke. It's about painting landscapes in a fairly loose manner. Using a big brush as it says in the name of the...
Frank Clarke’s Paintbox – Book Review
I've been tinkering around with the Amazon wishlist recently, looking for books that I might want for my birthday in the summer. And I don't like...
Waterfall Green
It's been cold outside for the last week or so and I'm going through a phase where I'm too messy to be able to work indoors so there's been a bit...
Winter Roots
And for my second painting today, I thought I'd just throw everything on the paper and see what came out. Here's what I ended up with. I...
A Windy Day In Whitstable
We went for a walk along the coast with the dog yesterday. On the way back from Whitstable to the car, the tide was in, the wind was fierce and the...
The Searchers Again
I'm back to silhouette scenes from famous Westerns. This time it's back to The Searchers. John Ford really knew how to compose a scene. The rider...