After seeing none of my portraits selling at the Upchurch art & craft exhibition over the weekend, discussing a couple of landscape exhibiting...
Category: Purple Cool
Mick Fleetwood
You know what? I did end up finding a photo of Mick Fleetwood that would make a great portrait. It was a pretty monochrome photo and was close to...
Church Of San Pedro De Atacama, Chile
Another watercolour today. Here was my line of thinking: - lots of recent paintings have been in the key of orange cool: Duane Allman, I Can Read...
Stirling Castle
I was flicking through the Tony Smibert book this morning looking for inspiration for two forthcoming eye on the other side of the glass paintings....
Black Rock Cottage, Glencoe In The Key Of Purple Cool
So, as promised, here's another painting of Black Rock Cottage, but this time using more conventional watercolour.ours rather than the...
Thatch Cottage, Hartlip – The Full Monty
Someone approached me the other of about the possibility of painting Thatch Cottage in my home village of Hartlip. It's a cottage I've painted...
Bodin Church, Norway
My friend Cathy, who takes more photos that would make good paintings than anyone I know is currently enjoying a holiday in the frozen North and...
The Tuck Inn
This afternoon I took a stroll down to the Tuck Inn, my local purveyor of breakfast baguettes with the intention of running off another two or...
New Court In Colour
Bearable temperature outside today? With worse to come, I thought it best to get out there with the watercolours while it was still possible. The...
The White Church, Comrie, Perthshire
Painting's been taking a back seat for a few days while I've been enjoying the cricket and the chess. But the test match is over now and it's a...
Murray Edwards College, Cambridge
After all that fun with whitewashed buildings in my last painting, I wanted to have another go at something similar. After googling for white...
The Red Lion, Weston
It was looking too hot outside today to venture out painting, so I looked through my files for something I could paint in a shady spot in the...
The End Of The Footpath
I took the dog out for a walk this morning and found this prefect site for a painting. It’s at the end of a footpath from the Lower Hartlip Road....
Once Upon A Time In The West Again
Time for a watercolour again and today was looking like a good day to be painting in the garden. After yesterday's success with a Western and the...
St Michael’s & All Saints Church, Hartlip
Back in the garden again for another Hartlip painting. Today it's the local church. The plan was to use four colours: French ultramarine,...
Craiglea And Sanquhar, Hartlip
It's freezing outside so I only have one painting to add to the Hartlip collection today. I picked this pair of cottages because they were white....
The Cheetah Woman
After the painting experiment two days ago that I unwrapped yesterday, I had an overnight think and decided that I was going to press ahead and...
Another Abstract Underpainting
The markers and inktense pencils haven't really been working out for me over the last week or so, so I thought I'd better brave the cold outside...
Archway Into St Michael’s & All Saints Church, Hartlip
Another bit of plein air painting and this time it's my local church in Hartlip. Just like last time, it's in the key of purple cool, made up of...
Stockbury Church
Time for a new experience. To get some practice in (just in case I make it on to Landscape Artist Of The Year as a wildcard) I thought I'd better...