Still making my way through my pile of new art supplies and today it's a first outing for my Schmincke supergranulating tundra watercolours. They...
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Big Sam In Coloured Pencil
I still have loads of new art gear to try out, so no dash and splash for me today. It’s time to give the coloured pencils a first outing. For...
Hartlip Church Tower 2
Tempting as it is to binge read my pile of new art instruction books, I do really need to test out some of my new art gear. First up are the...
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...
Adrina In Inktense Pencil
After that last painting, I wanted to have another go at painting Adrina in this pose, so it was back to the inktense pencils. It's quite good...
Stonehenge III
I fancied having a go with the oil pastels today as it's been a while. It's still too hot for them outside, so I was painting indoors. To be...
Sgurr A’Fionn Choire And Baruch Na Frithe
The distracting FIDE Candidates Tournament is over and I need to get back to painting and make up for lost time. But the test match was on this...
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...
A Haunted Island
I'm taking a day off from serious watercolour painting today and going back to abstract landscapes. I'm going back to the palette knife technique...
A Corner Of Stonehenge
This was always going to be today's painting after all that fun testing out my Daniel Smith colours yesterday. It's two days to Summer Solstice...
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...
Blackpool Pleasure Beach
My second episode as a wildcard at Landscape Artist Of The Year was screened in February 2023 but here's what I had to say after filming in June...
Warden Point
I was back on the road again today and thought I'd head to Leysdown On Sea on the Isle of Sheppey to see what I could find to paint. After...
Wake Up Kevin!
The second series of Drawers Off started on Channel & this week. I didn’t watch much of the first series: requiring the artists to all take...
Thurnham Castle
Today I've been on a day trip to paint Thurnham Castle. It's a little bit to the North of Maidstone and is just a pair of hills, one of which has...
Dreamland Margate
I've been looking forward to this for ages. A day trip down to Margate to paint Dreamland, Margate's funfair. With the fair still being closed...
EvaE Again
A day off today. Or a day off from watercolour anyway. There's something about using inktense pencils that makes painting less tiring than using...
The Smell Of Seaweed
I've been out and about for the first time this year. I drove over to the Riverside Country Park in Gillingham and stride up and down the causeway...
An Arrogant Intrusion
I was watching an interesting video by Liron Yanconsky on YouTube the other day in which he painted a church in monochrome without putting down a...
Force Of Life
So here's my second painting of the day. Again, this was all about having fun rather than creating a masterpiece. My idea on this one was to...