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...
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...
Painting Rivers From Source To Sea, Rob Dudley – Book Review
This was the first birthday present book to arrive, so it was the first one that I got my teeth into. It's written by Rob Dudley who cowrote that...
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...
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...
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...
Series Of Posterised Paintings Of Newington
So, yeah, the local vicar asked me a few weeks go whether I'd be interesting in setting up a stand at the Newington garden party on 24 August,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
St. Mary The Virgin Church, Newington
Here we go. Number five in a collection of at least seven, probably nine, posterised paintings of Newington. Today I've finally bitten the bullet...
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...
Two Kiln Oast, Newington
After a day off, I'm back to building a collection of paintings of Newington. Today I picked out a converted oast house next to the church. ...
Meanwhile, At The Rose & Crown
I just took a cheeky look in my local pub, The Rose & Crown in Hartlip. And up on the wall of the restaurant are twelve of my paintings, all...
Mings Chinese Takeaway, Newington
Another Newington landscape tidy and once again it's using the Notanizer app. Today it's Mings Chinese Takeaway and I've painted it using the...
A Cold Day In Newington
I was approached by our local vicar the other day. As well as being vicar in Hartlip, he's also vicar in the neighbouring village of Newington. ...
Porto City Hall Tower
Today's painting is the second, after The Transfer, to be inspired by a photo taken by my mate Olly on his recent holiday in Portugal. Whisper it,...