Well, I had a go at rescuing what was left after those two experiments. I painted over the sky, the trees and the orange background fields using...
Month: May 2019
Failed Experiment Part 2
So, after that failed experiment, I thought I'd experiment some more. Let's face it, I had nothing to lose. So I had some crumpled aluminium foil...
Failed Experiment Part 1
Today's painting was an experiment that went really badly. I sketched out a composition first. A bit of sky, a field in the background and a...
Broken
It's been brewing for a while but I finally went to the shops yesterday to buy a transparent warm (orangey) red as a potential replacement for the...
I’m on Instagram!
A friend who's a full time artist told me the other day that I really needed to set up an Instagram account and put loads of hashtags against my...
Denali National Park
I thought it was about time I did something more conventional. Nothing abstract, no acrylic inks, no salt. Just a plain simple landscape. And I...
Keep Painting, Gordon MacKenzie – Book Review
This one is 144 pages long and the first thing I notice is that it doesn’t feel like other art instruction hardbacks. The cover is warm and matty...
Sparkly Tree
After four paintings in a row based on the tried and trusted abstract silhouette style, I thought it was time for something different. I was in...