Got to keep practising in case I make it to Landscape Artist Of The Year so it's another soft pastel landscape. This is a scene from my village of...
Category: Hartlip, Kent
This Way To The Village Hall
I’m keeping going with the soft pastel landscapes and thought I'd have a go at another local one, building up the reserve list ready to display at...
A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man
After two days off I needed to get back to painting today but didn't have much time available, so went for the Inktense pencils, with no long...
Hartlip Church In Soft Pastel
Another of my paintings was sold at the Rose & Crown the other day, so I thought I'd better do another local landscape. This is a painting of...
And The Birds Up On The Wires And The Telegraph Poles
Still beavering away today at building up a stockpile of local landscapes to display at the Rose & Crown and, in particular, landscapes in soft...
Self Portrait 2025
As promised, it was a self portrait day today. I've seen people online talking about applying to Portrait Artist Of The Year, and it's got me...
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...
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...
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...
Meanwhile, At The Rose & Crown
I just took a cheeky look in my local pub, The Rose & Crown in Hartlip. And up on the wall of the restaurant are twelve of my paintings, all...
Coming Soon To The Rose And Crown, Hartlip
Now this is exciting. The Rose And Crown, my local pub in Hartlip, wants to put some of my local painting up on the wall of its restaurant. It...
The Studio
I wandered around the village for a while looking for a subject for my third dash & splash. I wanted to find a drawing spot in the shade as the...
Secret Door Under Hartlip Church
For my second dash & splash of the day, I headed to Hartlip Church and did this drawing of some stairs down to a doorway below the...
Hartlip War Memorial
It's been a while since I last went on a dash & splash so I thought I'd give it a go today. How this works is that I head outside and do some...
Annual Self Portrait 2024
So at last I've finally done a self portrait in watercolour. I was in the mood for supergranulators today and picked out the tundra set. I...
The Under The Desk Collection
Well, I can tell you that I will definitely be entering for Portrait Artist Of The Year again this time around. Because, even if I don't have any...
Under The Desk IV
And that's the Under The Desk collection completed. For the colour scheme I chose the grey markers, putting down some vague value shapes and then...
Under The Desk III
Here's the third in the under the desk collection. Today The main two colours were my light and dark green. Just as with the previous two...
Under The Desk II
Look, I'm allowed to change my mind, OK? Yesterday's portrait grew on me and Monday tends to be a short day, so I thought I'd continue with the...
Under The Desk I
Applications for Portrait Artist Of The Year need to be in by the end of January, so I thought I'd better make a start on the 2024 self portrait...