Author: ArtisticActuary

Shell Ginger

I thought I'd have a ago at some Jean Haines style painting today by painting a shell ginger flower.  The flowers are white on the outside and...

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Birthday Book Stash

I got all these nine new art instruction books for my birthday.  It may take some time but I'll definitely be reading them all and posting reviews...

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A Miserable Night In Torquay

I still have three new books sitting on the shelf and it would be very easy for me to stop painting for a month while I read them all.  But then I...

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Hondo

I thought it was about time I did another Western silhouette painting as they're always popular. Today's painting is based on a still from Hondo, a...

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Hidden Village

This one's taken me a couple of days.  After reading Ann Blockley's Watercolour Workshop, I thought I'd have a go at painting a random abstract,...

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Last Days Of Summer

Another quite traditional looking painting today.  I was watching a YouTube video this morning where Gordon MacKenzie was showing how to paint...

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Bledlow Poppy

Well, I had a go at rescuing what was left after those two experiments. I painted over the sky, the trees and the orange background fields using...

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Failed Experiment Part 2

So, after that failed experiment, I thought I'd experiment some more.  Let's face it, I had nothing to lose. So I had some crumpled aluminium foil...

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Failed Experiment Part 1

Today's painting was an experiment that went really badly. I sketched out a composition first.  A bit of sky, a field in the background and a...

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Broken

It's been brewing for a while but I finally went to the shops yesterday to buy a transparent warm (orangey) red as a potential replacement for the...

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I’m on Instagram!

A friend who's a full time artist told me the other day that I really needed to set up an Instagram account and put loads of hashtags against my...

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Denali National Park

I thought it was about time I did something more conventional.  Nothing abstract, no acrylic inks, no salt.  Just a plain simple landscape.  And I...

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