In the end I got eight books for my birthday. Six of them are already here in front of me; two aren't published until August, so I know exactly...
Year: 2022
Polychromos Swatching
So I've done a huge swatch of those Polychromos coloured pencils and here it is. They look good. Even the cobalt green and rose carmine will end...
Birthday Stash 4/4: Everything Else
And then there's all this other stuff: - a backpack big enough to fit the big white plastic bits that come with my easel. No more lugging two...
Birthday Stash 3/4: Polychromos Coloured Pencils
And there's more. A set of 36 Polychromos coloured pencils, a case with room to expand to 60 pencils and a couple of pads of cartridge paper. ...
Birthday Stash 2/4: Fineliners
Next up are these fineliner pens, complete with pen case and extra smooth watercolour paper to use them on. The case is big enough to also fit the...
Birthday Stash 1/4: Schmincke Supergranulating Watercolours
So it's my birthday and I've got a lot of new art gear. Jeepers. So much that I've split it all over four posts, three of which will set me off...
Red House
Today's one of those weird days of the year. The day before my birthday. Who knows what sort of art gear or art books will appear tomorrow?...
Tidying Up The Shop Windows
I've not done any painting for a while, although obviously the weather's had a lot to do with this. I've not been completely idle, though, and...
New Court In Colour
Bearable temperature outside today? With worse to come, I thought it best to get out there with the watercolours while it was still possible. The...
Sarah Ann, Pensive
It's just too hot outside to paint this week, so I'll be having a run on the inktense pencils. Today I picked a pose by Sarah Ann, someone I've...
Adrina In Inktense Pencil
After that last painting, I wanted to have another go at painting Adrina in this pose, so it was back to the inktense pencils. It's quite good...
Adrina In Watercolour
My plan today was to play things fast and loose by putting down a random colourful underpainting and then to convert it to something else with some...
Stonehenge III
I fancied having a go with the oil pastels today as it's been a while. It's still too hot for them outside, so I was painting indoors. To be...
Sgurr A’Fionn Choire And Baruch Na Frithe
The distracting FIDE Candidates Tournament is over and I need to get back to painting and make up for lost time. But the test match was on this...
The White Church, Comrie, Perthshire
Painting's been taking a back seat for a few days while I've been enjoying the cricket and the chess. But the test match is over now and it's a...
Ancient Lights
Abstract landscapes don't drain me as much as serious paintings, so after the last one, I was ready for a repeat performance. After a little bit...
A Haunted Island
I'm taking a day off from serious watercolour painting today and going back to abstract landscapes. I'm going back to the palette knife technique...
Another Corner Of Stonehenge
It's June 21, the Summer Solstice, so I'm back to Stonehenge again. In a lot of ways, this followed a similar process to my previous painting, but...
A Corner Of Stonehenge
This was always going to be today's painting after all that fun testing out my Daniel Smith colours yesterday. It's two days to Summer Solstice...
Third Stone From The Sun
It was too hot yesterday to be outside painting. So I spent the day indoors watching YouTube videos of people swatching the colours from the super...