After such a miserable effort yesterday, I had to go back to the oil pastels today. With the watercolours it's still touch and go whether I can...
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BronwynS
So here's today's second effort. A debut for BronwynS. I won't spend too long writing this one up. It doesn't deserve the time. I stared trying...
The Return Of Jazmine
I'm doing two figure drawings today. I bought a new cartridge pad the other week for my inktense drawings and started filling it out. But then a...
Two Trees, Hartlip House
After a flop with the watercolours, I'm back to the oil pastels again, where everything always seems to go well and I can regain some confidence. ...
Watercolor: Ted Keller – Book Review
I thought I'd treat myself to an art book after going through a lot this last month and decided to go for the Ted Keller book. It's been floating...
Round The Back Of Hartlip Church
I'm finally back onto the watercolours today. The weather looked good outside but the rain came along so I moved to the garage. It would have...
Animal Biscuit Valley, New Zealand
I'm still on the oil pastels but it's a landscape in New Zealand today. Well kind of. I've been a bit smart today and left out some rocks that...
Rory Burns
I noticed the other day that I'd still not used my black oil pastel. With watercolours, black's a pretty boring colour and a bad mixer. I can...
Annual Self Portrait 2022
It's time for the annual self portrait and after two years of inktense pencils, this year's portrait is in oil pastels. I have a long way to go...
KylieB Sitting On A Box
Back to the figure drawing with the inktense pencils today. I've been doing a lot of these during 2022 and I expect people are getting bored with...
Torres Del Paine National Park
Enough with the naked women, I'm back onto landscapes. This is three artworks in successive days, which is pretty unusual for me. The subject...
KeiraG
I didn't want to go straight back to the oil pastels today. I had this feeling that if I did go for them I'd be impatient and rushed. Better to...
Sarah Ann
After a few weeks away following the loss of my father, I'm back to the artwork. And I'm glad I am. It was great to spend an hour and a half away...
Mika M, In Action
How about some figure drawing in oil pastel? I've tried it once before, here, without success but that was when I'd only just got the watercolours...
Ross Kemp
Wednesday night is Landscape Of The Year night. But just before LAOTY is a repeat of Portrait Artist Of The Year that I don't watch, having seen...
Ullapool
I fancied giving the oil pastels a go today and this is what I came up with. It's a view of Ullapool, a tiny town somewhere on the West Coast of...
The Listener
My Dad's had a new kitchen fitted. When I dropped in to see him, I rescued a bunch of old kitchen shelves from a skip in the drive with the...
Ruby
I did say that Jean Haines had inspired me to go out and paint animals. And three days after the book was published, I've painted our cavalier...
Atmospheric Animals In Watercolour: Jean Haines – Book Review
This book was only published two days ago and I'm already reviewing it. It was a birthday present from my sister that was expected to be published...
Nicole Vaunt
It's still too cold to be painting outside so I'm on the inktense pencils again. Today's model is Nicole, making her debut. Because it's so cold...