After a flop with the watercolours, I'm back to the oil pastels again, where everything always seems to go well and I can regain some confidence. ...
Category: Hartlip, Kent
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...
Annual Self Portrait 2022
It's time for the annual self portrait and after two years of inktense pencils, this year's portrait is in oil pastels. I have a long way to go...
Ruby
I did say that Jean Haines had inspired me to go out and paint animals. And three days after the book was published, I've painted our cavalier...
Number Two Twinned With Hartlip Church In The Snow
And here are those two paintings together.
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...
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...
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...
Hartlip Church In Oil Pastel
More practice drawing with the oil pastels today. As I've got landscape colours, I thought I'd better have a go at a landscape, this time using...
Logical Right Eye
And so straight on to the right eye. The same techniques as I used for the left eye. Whereas with watercolours and to a lesser extent inktense...
Artistic Left Eye
It seems the best way to learn how to use oil pastels is to watch videos on YouTube. Today I watched Scrooge The Profit describing the rule of...
Oil Pastel Testing
I learned a lesson from my first time using watercolours, markers and inktense pencils. And that lesson was not to attempt a masterpiece first...
Hartlip Church Tower
It's been twelve days since I last painted in watercolour. Just too many things going on at the moment, including the Euros. It's not that these...
Secret Door Into Hartlip Church
The Euros start today, so my paintings might slow right down over the next few weeks unless I can start getting out of bed earlier. There's only...
Annual Self Portrait 2021
As the drawing seems to be going well at the moment, what better time for a self portrait? I've decided that I need to do a self portrait every...
Orchard Lea, Hartlip
Someone in the village asked me if I'd be interested in painting her house. I gave her my standard answer, which is that I don't do commissions...
Footpath, Lower Hartlip Road
Back to the painting after a few days' break. This is another scene from the village. Follow that footpath up the hill over the field and you...
Archway Into Hartlip Church
Enough of these village houses! I wanted to paint some stones, so it's back to the church to paint this archway again. I first drew the archway...
Cuckoo Orchard, Hartlip
Somebody in the village approached me the other day about painting his house. We had a good long chat and I think he gets what my artwork is...
Hartlip House
After three days off watching the chess at the FIDE Candidates, I was back in the garden again painting another village scene. I'm pretty sure the...