Second up in the Christ's Maths Fellows 1982-86 collection is Richard Maunder. This guy was an absolute legend. He was a pure mathematician, into...
Category: Geographical Breakdown
Professor Peter Landshoff
It's time to start a new portrait collection. I was feeling a bit short of ideas and a bit out of form so thought I'd do portraits of the four...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Moon, Turn The Tides…Gently Gently Away
I'm currently reading How To Make A Watercolour Paint Itself by Nita Engle and thought I'd try out some of her ideas today with a stormy sea...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Clare Bridge In Complementary Colours
Anybody else that has read it will know straight away after looking at this that I'm reading Color Choices by Stephen Quiller. There's a full...
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...
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...
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....
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,...
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...