Another plein air painting day today. I'm back in Queendown Warren again, but to keep things interesting I'm using watercolour rather than oil...
Category: Hartlip & Stockbury
Chalk Face, Queendown Warren
I've been waiting a while for today to come round. The weather forecast was for the warmest day of the year so far and I've been itching to head...
Annual Self Portrait 2023
It's that time of year when a certain job comes up. It's time for the annual self portrait, something that I've been looking forward to for a...
Climate Change
It's been a while now since my last painting but I decided earlier in the week that today was going to be my first watercolour day of 2023. The...
Critiqued By Liron Yanconsky!
Today I was honoured to have my work critiqued on YouTube by Liron Yanconsky, an artist that I hugely admire. The link...
Steps Up From The Street, Hartlip
The World Cup is over and there's only four days to go to Christmas. It's hard not to switch to wind down mode and watch Westerns all day but I...
Shirley
Another house in the village but this time I've not been approached by the owners to paint it. This one's a housewarming gift. The guy that's had...
Number Eighteen
I was approached a week or two ago by a guy on the village who said he'd be interested in buying a painting of his house if I ever did one. I...
Stockbury Church Tower
For my final dash and splash of the day, I headed out to Stockbury Church and settled down in a spot that I'd painted from before. After not being...
MB Farms, Stockbury
After drawing the pub, I wandered up the road to MB Farms, Stockbury's village shop and the closest shop to those of us in Hartlip. MB Farms...
The Harrow, Stockbury
Sunday is always a good day for a dash and splash and today I've trekked out to my neighbouring village of Stockbury to do three drawings before...
Thatch Cottage, Hartlip – The Full Monty
Someone approached me the other of about the possibility of painting Thatch Cottage in my home village of Hartlip. It's a cottage I've painted...
Auger Close, Hartlip
And here's the final dash and splash of the day. I didn't have to dash very far after drawing it as it's a view from my back garden, albeit with...
Archway To Hartlip Church, Dashed And Splashed
The plan was to do three dash and splashes today but we had an early dinner and I had to head home after doing two drawings. After lunch, I went...
Hartlip Village Hall
Next I wandered over to the village hall and found a comfortable place to sit and draw. I might have put the village hall slightly too high on the...
Hartlip Methodist Church
I’ve had a busy day dashing and splashing around the village. I just woke I up in that sort of mood. I started by heading for the Methodist...
Clearing In Newington Woods
So, after all that swatching, here's my first go with the Shire supergranulating colours. I trekked a mile or two across some fields in the...
Inside The Tuck Inn
After doing two drawings from the other side of the road opposite the Tuck Inn, I was ready to step inside and enjoy a milkshake while doing a...
Cherry Stand In Tuck Inn Car Park
While I was drawing the Tuck Inn, I also had one eye on a stand in the car park where someone was selling cherries. I thought it might make a good...
The Tuck Inn
This afternoon I took a stroll down to the Tuck Inn, my local purveyor of breakfast baguettes with the intention of running off another two or...