Month: July 2024

First View Of Queendown Warren

Here's my first ever painting using the soft pastels. Because I wasn't expecting to be able to capture much detail, I picked a pretty plain view...

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Harvey’s Brewery, Lewes

And here's the first outing for the M Graham watercolours. I picked a view of the Harvey's brewery in Lewes because the River Ouse alongside it...

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M Graham Landscape Set Swatching

I had just the right amount of time to spare today to do some swatching, and it's the turn of the M Graham landscape watercolour set. It's an odd...

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Camp Of The Dog

No book reviews or swatches today. It's time to start trying out all these new art supplies, starting with the crystalline watercolour. For subject...

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Soft Pastel Swatches

The swatching continues with the soft pastels. As I said before I have a set of 28 portrait colours, a set of 14 cloudy sky colours and a set of 14...

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Crystalline Watercolour Swatching

Looks like today's going to be a swatching day. I started with the crystalline watercolours. These are made by Jackmans and are only available...

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2024 Birthday Stash 2: New Media

And here's the second post of birthday stash. Here's what we have: There are loads of soft pastels. I’ve never used these before but, if...

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2024 Birthday Stash 1: Books

Here are the four new books I got for my birthday. Reviews will be posted up here in due course. I've also ordered another book, one that's an...

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Sparkle Brush

So it was my birthday yesterday. I have three new art books and have ordered a fourth, along with some interesting new art gear, with some birthday...

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Paul Auster

I started this one last night and finished it this morning. It's unusual for me to spread something over two days. It's because I started late...

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Station Road, Newington

And here's the last of my series of nine posterised paintings of Newington. It's based on a really old photo of Station Road, probably predating...

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Newington Pelican Crossing

Back to the real business today and it's the eighth of my nine posterised. Newington landscapes. I'm now on to the two colour schemes that are the...

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No Ma’am: We’re Musicians

Monday’s always a short day for me, so I thought this would be the perfect excuse to take a break from the posterised Newington landscapes and to...

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High Street, Newington, 1920s

I’m still building up this series of posterised paintings of Newington. Today I painted a scene on the A2 from the 1920s. The colour scheme is the...

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The Former George Inn, Newington

Next up in this series of posterised paintings is one on the green colour scheme, with layers of transparent yellow, cerulean blue and French...

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39 High Street, Newington

I bumped into the local vicar yesterday. He conformed that I'm invited to have a stand selling paintings at a Newington garden party at Newington...

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