All Landscapes

Round The Back Of Hartlip Church

I'm finally back onto the watercolours today.  The weather looked good outside but the rain came along so I moved to the garage.  It would have...

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Animal Biscuit Valley, New Zealand

I'm still on the oil pastels but it's a landscape in New Zealand today.  Well kind of.  I've been a bit smart today and left out some rocks that...

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Torres Del Paine National Park

Enough with the naked women, I'm back onto landscapes.  This is three artworks in successive days, which is pretty unusual for me. The subject...

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Ullapool

I fancied giving the oil pastels a go today and this is what I came up with.  It's a view of Ullapool, a tiny town somewhere on the West Coast of...

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The Whisperers

With those two jobs out of the way, I was ready to kick off my painting for 2022.  Be warned though, my first watercolour of the year is never...

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Number Two

Remember Hartlip Church In The Snow from a month or so ago?  I gave it to Barbara next door as an 80th birthday present.  Well, her daughter pulled...

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Frank’s Wood, Leith Hill, Surrey

It's getting cold and wet outside so the number of watercolour and oil paintings that I'll be doing the rest of this year is numbered.  Today I...

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Sastrugi

There's a long story behind this one.  I didn't have much time to paint today but thought I'd been away from the brushes for too long so that I'd...

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Hartlip Church In The Snow

A month or so ago, someone from the village church was asking about the possibility of me painting something they could use for the church's...

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Hartlip Church In The Sun

It's the 29th of August already!  The local church has another tea and cake afternoon on 12th September and I promised them I'd have another...

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High Cup Nick

This is High Cup Nick, a huge chasm up in the Pennines.  I've been meaning to paint it for years after seeing the source photo in the pages of the...

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Castles Made Of Sand

This is my second attempt at a painting with a complementary colour scheme.  The two colours are Winsor orange and French ultramarine.  In Quiller...

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Fog Over Queendown Warren

Just the one oil pastel piece today.  When I was out exploring Queendown Warren the other week, I took a photo of this stile as it looked like a...

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Still Raining, Still Dreaming

Having learned my lessons, here's my second attempt of the day.  There are only three colours in the whole painting.  Payne's grey and light red...

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The Wind Cries Mary

I was short of ideas today, so watched a few Jean Lurssen videos on YouTube for inspiration.  I was impressed by one "exercise" she did (for...

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Malayavanta Hill, In Oil Pastel

Oil pastel paintings are (for me, for now) faster than watercolours, so are the ideal choice when I want to create a second work in a single day....

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Malayavanta Hill, Near Hampi

I'm still on the watercolours and, yet again, I’ve gone for some precariously balanced rocks.  These seem to be my thing in 2021.  They're great,...

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