The second of my six YouTube subject areas is maths. This is Michael Penn who does maths videos. He seems to be a pure mathematician, into number...
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Mark Hector, Brain Squeeze Reactions
After reading the Bill Maughan book, I was keen to get started on some chiariscuro portraits but thought I'd start with markers rather than the...
Artist Of The Year
I've submitted my entries for Landscape And Portrait Artist Of The Year. The PAOTY deadline has been and gone and the judges are currently looking...
John Cleese
I had a premonition the other day. Maybe it's all to do with new episodes of Fawlty Towers being created but I've convinced myself that John...
The Artist’s Complete Guide To Drawing The Head, William L. Maughan – Book Review
I only discovered this book on Amazon a couple of weeks ago and it didn't last on my wishlist for long. The style of drawing that it describes is...
Warren Haynes
I'm back to the coloured pencils today after a day off to check out potential garden art studios. I just think I need a few more coloured pencil...
The Colours Of Nuuk
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...
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,...