Somebody local who works with number two son in the kitchen at the Rose & Crown expressed an interest in buying a painting of a highland cow if...
Category: Geographical Breakdown
The M2
It's another soft pastel landscape today. After yesterday's success, I thought I'd have another go while my head was still buzzing with Robert...
Islay Beach Cottage
After reading the Robert Brindley book, I was itching to get started on a new soft pastel painting. I picked out a view of a cottage for rent on...
Untitled Basic Track
The nights are fair drawin' in and the days are getting colder. I thought it was cold enough today to dig out the oil pastels again. I've not used...
Long Hot Summer Night
This is another painting that's been brewing for a while. If I don't look at the clouds and see naked women, what else is there to see? Well,...
The Tryst
I had another go at a sky painting in soft pastels today but I'm already veering off the beaten path by going for a cloud formation that looks like...
And The Dirty Old Track Was The Lower Hartlip Road
After reading the Sandra Orme book, I'm straight in with a sky painting. What with me having a set of "cloudy sky" colours with no reds and my...
Towards Where Warren Cottage Should Be
I’m still trying to build up a reserve supply of paintings that could replace any that are sold at the Rose & Crown. After three successive...
Early Twentieth Century Hartlip
Time to work on building up a reserve of paintings ready to display at the Rose & Crown when others are sold. For today's subject I picked out...
In From The Storm
The news came through last night that two of my paintings that were on display at at the Rose & Crown have been sold. So I needed to find a...
Weissenhof Estate, Stuttgart
The subject of today's painting is a building in the Weissenhof Estate in Stuttgart, a set of supermodern homes built for an exhibition on 1927. ...
Burnside Cottage, Fionnphort, Isle Of Mull
I'm still getting used to the NeolucidaXL. As the next step in my journey towards mastering its ways, I used it today to help me draw a simple...
Bunnahabhain Distillery
I'm still making my way through my birthday presents but it isn't new art gear today: it's a new malt. An 18 year old Bunnahabhain from Islay...
The Face Of Harakbut
This is the Face Of Harakbut. It's in the Amazon rainforest, somewhere in Peru. Nobody knows whether it's manmade or a natural rock formation. ...
First View Of Queendown Warren
Here's my first ever painting using the soft pastels. Because I wasn't expecting to be able to capture much detail, I picked a pretty plain view...
Harvey’s Brewery, Lewes
And here's the first outing for the M Graham watercolours. I picked a view of the Harvey's brewery in Lewes because the River Ouse alongside it...
Camp Of The Dog
No book reviews or swatches today. It's time to start trying out all these new art supplies, starting with the crystalline watercolour. For subject...
Series Of Posterised Paintings Of Newington
So, yeah, the local vicar asked me a few weeks go whether I'd be interesting in setting up a stand at the Newington garden party on 24 August,...
Station Road, Newington
And here's the last of my series of nine posterised paintings of Newington. It's based on a really old photo of Station Road, probably predating...
Newington Pelican Crossing
Back to the real business today and it's the eighth of my nine posterised. Newington landscapes. I'm now on to the two colour schemes that are the...