Someone in the village asked me if I'd be interested in painting her house. I gave her my standard answer, which is that I don't do commissions...
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Ben Talks Football
Portraits with markers always come in pairs. After that Tommy Cooper effort, I wasn't feeling confident enough to draw someone famous, so I headed...
Tommy Cooper
I've not had the markers out for a while and it's raining outside, so I'm having a go at a couple of portraits today. I'm not convinced by my last...
Time
This run of village paintings is all very well but if I don't vary things around a bit, I'll settle into a rut and never get any better. So I...
Footpath, Lower Hartlip Road
Back to the painting after a few days' break. This is another scene from the village. Follow that footpath up the hill over the field and you...
Archway Into Hartlip Church
Enough of these village houses! I wanted to paint some stones, so it's back to the church to paint this archway again. I first drew the archway...
Mandy
I've had a few days off and I really should get back to making the most of this break between jobs and doing some painting. Today I planned five...
Cuckoo Orchard, Hartlip
Somebody in the village approached me the other day about painting his house. We had a good long chat and I think he gets what my artwork is...
Hartlip House
After three days off watching the chess at the FIDE Candidates, I was back in the garden again painting another village scene. I'm pretty sure the...
Place Meadow, Hartlip
It's another Hartlip painting and, just like the last one, it features a house and is named after the house but the centre of interest in terms of...
Stonehall, Hartlip
I'm still painting Hartlip scenes. Next up is Stonehall. There's something I like about houses that are obscured behind trees where even the...
The Rose And Crown In The Snow
I was out and about in the village yesterday, taking more photos and everybody was coming up to me asking whether I was taking photos of scenes to...
Kevin, Annoyed
So after the disaster that was Brie In A Chair, I did another drawing straight away. It's back to another old favourite, Kevin, who I've painted...
Brie On A Chair
I'm taking a break from the watercolour for a day or two, so I've moved back to figure drawing with the inktense pencils today. First up is one of...
View From Hartlip Church
And it's another Hartlip landscape! This is the seventh and last of the Hartlip landscapes that I put together value plans for a while ago. If I...
Footpath From The Village Hall To The Park, Hartlip
Back onto my series of Hartlip paintings with a bit of a clunker. Starting colours in this one were Prussian blue, Indian yellow, rose dore and...
Watercolour Textures, Ann Blockley – Book Review
This one's 128 pages long. It's a hardback and was going for only £8.50. I just had to buy it. There's no way I could leave it sitting there at...
For A Nosy Parker It’s An Interestin’ Job
After putting together the underpainting that I described in the previous post, I spent most of today trying to work out what to do with it. The...
Abstract Beginnings
Yesterday I kicked off an abstract painting. I put on some masking tape and some directional masking fluid spatters. Then laid on some nice thick...
Wisteria Cottage, Hartlip
Still on the Hartlip landscapes and today it's Wisteria Cottage. Not that I can see much wisteria there if any. The main three colours today were...