An old mate from Uni, Howard, was recently on holiday in the Scottish Highlands and Islands and posted loads of photos on Facebook. The one on...
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The Mukurob (Finger Of God)
So after finishing Hazel Soan's African Watercolours I wanted to strike while the iron was hot and paint something influenced by the book. For...
Hazel Soan’s African Watercolours – Book Review
Time for another book review. This 128–page paperback has been on my wishlist for a good few years, gradually making its way upwards as other...
Queendown Warren Car Park
So here's my first ever charcoal painting. It's of the entrance to a car park in Queendown Warren, somewhere between Hartlip and Medway Services....
Charcoal Swatching
My Jackson’s order finally made it through yesterday so I was almost ready to start using the charcoals but first I set out to the shops. I...
Looking For Source Material For Charcoal
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...
AveryA
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...