Reading that George Blacklock book during the week I started to think about how artists like Dali, Mageitte and Blacklock himself have common theme...
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Book Review Rating Policy
I saw the other day that I'd reached fifty pages linked to the subject of book reviews and thought it was about time that I said something about...
Colour And Abstraction, George Blacklock – Book Review
This book was going cheap on Amazon the other day and it was on my wishlist, so I exercised my market timing muscles and bought it. It's a 128...
I See A Red Door And I Want It Painted Black
Where do I start with this one? Well, I’ve been thinking of doing something like this all week, dividing the paper up and doing lots of little...
The Old Man Of Tarsuinn
Today's subject is the Old Man of Tarsuinn, another rocky formation but this time closer to home on the Isle of Arran. Looking through my swatch...
The Hoodoo Watch
The weather was good enough today to spend a bit of time painting properly in the garden. The subject matter is a set of hoodoos. These are weird...
A Six Colour Palette and the Mind The Gap Approach to Colour Theory
Yesterday's painting got quite messy and I found that, when I removed the painting from my watercolour block, some of the paint or ink had leaked...
Life On Venus
I needed to do some painting this week. I enjoy doing portraits with markers and figure drawing with inktense pencils but painting is my bread and...
Best Of The Wildcards
I wanted to push that Spider-Man drawing down the list and it's still another five days to the weekend, so I thought I'd do something different and...
Elizabeth Olsen
I'm back onto putting my Avengers team together. Next up is Elizabeth Olsen as the Scarlet Witch. The Avengers aren't the Avengers without a...
Tom Holland
Before I talk about this one, a big hello to anyone that's here for the first time after seeing my brief appearance on Landscape Artist Of The...
Landscape Artist Of The Year
The program's over. Nice that I got a big soundbite talking about how I was going to be painting on a map. It's a shame that they only announced...
Landscape Artist Of The Year
I'll be in this week's Landscape Artist Of The Year as a wildcard. Sky Arts is free to view and is available via both Freeview and Freesat. I...
Becca And Daniel
Too much swatching, time for some artwork. I wasn't feeling up to going the full watercolour today so decided to do my first bit of inktense...
The Big Swatch
After settling on a palette with three reds, three blues and three yellows (counting raw sienna as a yellow), I was keen to produce a new set of...
Colour Bugs
Now that the squad is selected, it's time to follow up that trial of the reds with a full scale workout for the new set of colours. Rather than...
The 2021 Palette Collection
And here it is, the 2021 12-pan palette. The squad has finally been announced. The loser in yesterday's trail of the reds was permanent rose....
Trial Of The Reds
It's that time of year when my mind turns to selecting a squad of colours to occupy my palette. Well, one of my palettes. I have a palette of 24...
Robert Downey Junior
My second and final portrait of the day. It's another in the Avengers collection and it's Robert Downey Junior who played Iron Man. As Iron Man,...
Mark Ruffalo
After Chadwick Boseman came out so well just after after Christmas, I thought I'd build a team and use him as the first in a series of MCU Avengers...