Month: April 2022

Daniella

I would have been back on the watercolour today but there were various things breaking up my day and watercolour requires a bit of focus so I...

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Raven S

I was in the mood for drawing today and if I've learned anything over the last couple of months, being in (or not in) the mood makes a big...

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Inktense Purple Mix Testing

As I explain in the next post, I wanted to test out what sort of purples I could get from mixing the reds and blues in my inktense pencils.  Here's...

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L Staircase, Christ’s College

For my first watercolour in 26 days (!) I'm back to Christ's College again.  This is the entry to L staircase, a part of the college I'm very...

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Tree In Christ’s Fellows’ Garden

It's been 13 days since my last painting.  I've just not been in the mood.  But today I'm back.  I thought I'd go for the oil pastels as a gentle...

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Shaun Wallace, The Dark Destroyer

In yesterday's Bob Willis portrait, I felt a bit frustrated at how difficult it was to get a likeness using oil pastels when the face was so small....

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Bob Willis

Look, I'll make this quick today.  I was in the mood to draw a portrait and decided to go for an oil pastel of the late Bob Willis.  I started...

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Katya’s Back

It's been five days since the last painting as I've not quite felt in the right mood and I know from experience that if I'm not in the right move...

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The Road To Glencoe

I risked doing an oil pastel painting indoors today.  This landscape is based on the road into Glencoe from the East.  I've been to Glencoe a...

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