I'm still not painting today. I want my next piece of art to be charcoal based after reading the Kate Boucher book. I don't even want to read...
Month: July 2023
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I quite fancied putting up my feet today and continuing to read the latest Guy Gavriel Kay novel out in the studio with the cricket on the iPad in...
Drawing With Charcoal, Kate Boucher – Book Review
Ok, let's have one more book review. This was the first book. I read after the first batch of birthday presents arrived as I was keen to read any...
Drawing Hands & Feet, Eddie Armer – Book Review
Time for another book review. This is Eddie Armer's book on drawing hands and feet. Because hands and feet let me down so often in my figure...
Birthday Stash 2023
Right. The post has arrived and I'm pretty sure that I won't be getting any more birthday presents for another year, so it's time for me to share...
101 Textures In Colored Pencil. Denise J. Howard – Book Review
It's that time of year when the artwork slows down a bit because I've been through a birthday and have a pile of new books that I'm eager to get...
Tundra Colours
This painting was long overdue. I'd had these tundra colours for a while and had painted a few snowy scenes in Nuuk, Greenland plus the odd U.K....
Look Over Yonder
I'm still on the watercolours today but not in the mood to work long and hard at a painting. Maybe it's because The Ashes are on; maybe it's...
Sky Above Hartlip Church
I'm back on to watercolours today and onto my proper palette rather than following any Schmincke supergranulator cheat codes, much as a love...
Miriam In Inktense Pencil
After three days off at Upchurch art and craft fair and a day off chilling on Monday (for which read housework, daily German lesson, daily four...
A Hot Day In Nuuk
It was part 2 of the challenge today. After painting a rocky scene with the tundra supergranulators yesterday, I wanted to paint an Arctic scene...
Abandoned Quarry Ruins, Carbilly Tor, Bodmin Moor
Right, enough messing about. I really should be doing more watercolour painting. I had an idea in my comfy chair last night at about midnight....
Upchurch Craft Fair
I have a stand at Upchurch Craft Fair this weekend. It's at St Mary’s Church and is open from 11am to 4pm for three days, Friday to Sunday. I'm...
Adhira
I warning the mood for an oil pastel landscape today and spent ages looking through loads of photos on my iPad before deciding that all of them...
What If Da Vinci Drew Comic Covers?
I was reading this post tonight and was so fascinated by it that I had to share it here. The author talks through various compositional armatures...
Doctor Vivian Crellin 1925—2020
Sometimes somebody just springs to mind whose portrait I want to paint and everything else has to be put to one side while I work on this sudden...
Threads
I've set myself up on Threads today. Here's a link to me. I was intending to post up most of my artwork to date there but only managed to get...
Bridge Over The River Risopatron
So after that brief dalliance with the Artgrafs this morning, I was back to the watercolours in the afternoon. For subject matter, I picked out...
Warming Up With Collibrina
I was going through my folders of watercolour paintings yesterday, tidying them up ready for an art and craft fair later this month. And I found...
United Underworld
And here's the United Underworld collection all together. Catwoman maybe looks a little weak but, being drawn at a different distance and with her...