It's looking grim outside, so I thought I'd try out those inktense pencils. It's hard to make a mess with these, so I think I’m OK with them in...
Year: 2020
Painting Expressive Landscape, Carole Robson – Book Review
On the face of it, this is a very similar book to the Jane Betteridge in my collection. It has artwork like that in the Ann Blockley books but...
Palette Cleaning And Setup
Actually, my sister messed up and ended up buying me two of those Winsor & Newton Professional 24 half pan palettes. So I've thrown away my...
En Plein Air Watercolor, Ron Stocke – Book Review
With all this painting I'm currently doing out and around the villages, I thought I'd start my birthday reading with this book. It's 128 pages...
Birthday Stash 3 of 3: New Books
Two more books just arrived in the post. That makes eight in my birthday stash and there may be a ninth on the way in a couple of weeks but I...
Birthday Stash 2 of 3: 24 Winsor & Newton Professional Halfpans
More birthday stash. This was from my kid sister. A tin with 24 watercolour half pans. I've talked in a previous post about how I wouldn't buy a...
Birthday Stash 1 of 3: Inktense Pencils
It was my birthday yesterday, and there was some stuff in my stash that I need to show off here. First up is this set of inktense pencils, which...
Archway Into St Michael’s & All Saints Church, Hartlip
Another bit of plein air painting and this time it's my local church in Hartlip. Just like last time, it's in the key of purple cool, made up of...
Stockbury Church
Time for a new experience. To get some practice in (just in case I make it on to Landscape Artist Of The Year as a wildcard) I thought I'd better...
And I’m Thumper!
Today's subject is Thumper from Diamonds Are Forever, played by actress Trina Parks. In this shot, Trina adopts what must be one of the greatest...
Christ’s College, Cambridge
I've still not given up hope of being invited into Sky Landscape Artist Of The Year as a wildcard, so with that competition likely to be focused on...
Lancashire Sunset
Today's painting was inspired by a photo by a guy called Brandon Lee Keefe of a sunset from St Peter's Church in Hersham. I say inspired rather...
(Two Of) The Hateful Eight
I thought it was about time I went back to my most popular series of paintings, the abstractified Westerns. Today, I found a still from The...
Marker Portraits Poll Results
So here are the results of my latest poll. Only a handful of surprises there. Bernardine Evaristo did better than I expected, James Coburn and...
The Glamour Of The Snow
I thought a bit of watercolour painting was overdue, so I've been out there this morning running off this little number. The thunder started as I...
The Artist’s Guide To Painting Water In Watercolour: 30 Techniques, Ron Hazell – Book Review
This one had been on my list for a while and was starting to look difficult to find on Amazon, so I had a hunt around and found a website that was...
The Magnificent Seven Collection, Framed
All framed now and ready to go in the post. Looking good, I must say. They've been given to my given to my father as a combined fathers day/77th...
Eli Wallach
Today on Portrait Artist Of The Week It was Clare Balding. I didn’t rate my chances of doing Clare justice so I've instead headed back to The...
Marker Portraits Poll
It's time for another poll, this time on my marker drawings. If you have a couple of minutes to spare (honestly, that's all it takes) please could...
The Magnificent Seven
And here's the set all together. I actually think they work well as a collection. They all have something different to bring to the party, just...