It's really cold outside today but I wanted to do some watercolour painting, so I picked some subject matter that had lots of simple shapes and...
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Twelve Angry Men
I saw this film on the telly the other day. Twelve Angry Men. It was released in 1957 and is a masterpiece. Twelve members of a jury debate a...
View From Highest Point, Queendown Warren
Another plein air painting day today. I'm back in Queendown Warren again, but to keep things interesting I'm using watercolour rather than oil...
Chalk Face, Queendown Warren
I've been waiting a while for today to come round. The weather forecast was for the warmest day of the year so far and I've been itching to head...
David Suchet
It's still too cold to be out painting, so I'm indoors with the coloured pencils again. And, to be honest, I could do with having more portraits...
Moeen Ali, The Beard To Be Feared
I'm back to cricket player portraits today. After my disastrous Stuart Broad portrait, I'm having another attempt at a bowler who could bat for me...
Annual Self Portrait 2023
It's that time of year when a certain job comes up. It's time for the annual self portrait, something that I've been looking forward to for a...
Painting Watercolour Snow Scenes The Easy Way, Terry Harrison – Book Review
I bought another book this week. It's been down near the bottom of my wishlist for a while but when the price suddenly fell to £7.41 I jumped in...
Climate Change
It's been a while now since my last painting but I decided earlier in the week that today was going to be my first watercolour day of 2023. The...
Landscape Artist Of The Year
Just six days to go until episode 4 of this series of Landscape Artist Of The Year and my second appearance as a wildcard. It's on Sky Arts,...
The 2023 Colour Palette
This week I've been thinking about the colours in my watercolour palette. My 2022 palette included three Daniel Smith primatek colours as special...
Stuart Broad
I don't want to spend more time talking about this one than I have to, so let's get on with it. It's another cricketer portrait. I needed two...
The Natural Way To Paint, Charles Reid – Book Review
Not a Christmas present, this one. It's a book I've been after a while and that I've been watching out for using the CamelCamelCamel website,...
Supergranulator Swatching
For my second and final set of swatches today, I turned to the supergranulators. Now being the owner of three sets of Schmincke supergranulators,...
Artgraf Swatching
It's a new year and I want to be out painting as soon as possible so that I can get a set of paintings worth including in an entry to Landscape...
Graham Thorpe
I've been in action with coloured pencils again. This one took me three days. It let me use some of the ideas that I picked up from the Karen...
Critiqued By Liron Yanconsky!
Today I was honoured to have my work critiqued on YouTube by Liron Yanconsky, an artist that I hugely admire. The link...
Realistic Portraits In Colored Pencil, Karen Hull – Book Review
And here's the last of my Christmas books. It's a 144 page paperback, slightly oversized at about 9 inches by 12. The book can be divided into...
The Old Bridge, Latheronwheel
After reading those two books and coming up with this painting, I think I may finally have "got" coloured pencils. It's all about adding multiple...
Landscape In Ink And Coloured Pencil, Helen Hanson – Book Review
Here's the review of the second of the three books on coloured pencil that I got for Christmas. It's a 160 page paperback and is not just about a...