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...
Category: Geographical Breakdown
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...
Place Meadow, Hartlip
It's another Hartlip painting and, just like the last one, it features a house and is named after the house but the centre of interest in terms of...
Stonehall, Hartlip
I'm still painting Hartlip scenes. Next up is Stonehall. There's something I like about houses that are obscured behind trees where even the...
The Rose And Crown In The Snow
I was out and about in the village yesterday, taking more photos and everybody was coming up to me asking whether I was taking photos of scenes to...
View From Hartlip Church
And it's another Hartlip landscape! This is the seventh and last of the Hartlip landscapes that I put together value plans for a while ago. If I...
Footpath From The Village Hall To The Park, Hartlip
Back onto my series of Hartlip paintings with a bit of a clunker. Starting colours in this one were Prussian blue, Indian yellow, rose dore and...
Wisteria Cottage, Hartlip
Still on the Hartlip landscapes and today it's Wisteria Cottage. Not that I can see much wisteria there if any. The main three colours today were...
St Michael’s & All Saints Church, Hartlip
Back in the garden again for another Hartlip painting. Today it's the local church. The plan was to use four colours: French ultramarine,...
Craiglea And Sanquhar, Hartlip
It's freezing outside so I only have one painting to add to the Hartlip collection today. I picked this pair of cottages because they were white....
The Street, Hartlip
Two paintings in one day! It's as if the hardest bit about painting is the planning and that creating a painting that's already been planned is so...
Thatch Cottage, Hartlip
And here it is, the first of a series of paintings based on my home village of Hartlip. This is Thatch Cottage, a cottage that's been rethatched...
Planning Is Everything
No painting for me today. Instead, I'm going to be spending the afternoon planning paintings to do over the next few days. I've had a stroll...
Valdeinfierno In Purple And Orange
That last painting, The Thin Ice, felt like a flop to me but got lots of likes on Facebook and on DeviantArt. The only good thing it had going for...
The Thin Ice
After the disaster that was The Brimham Rocks, I wasn't happy. I wanted to chase the frustrations out of my system by bashing out a second...
The Brimham Rocks
Today's subject is The Brimham Rocks, a rock formation somewhere near Harrogate in North Yorkshire. My rocky paintings have been pretty good this...
The Old Man Of Tarsuinn
Today's subject is the Old Man of Tarsuinn, another rocky formation but this time closer to home on the Isle of Arran. Looking through my swatch...
The Hoodoo Watch
The weather was good enough today to spend a bit of time painting properly in the garden. The subject matter is a set of hoodoos. These are weird...
Life On Venus
I needed to do some painting this week. I enjoy doing portraits with markers and figure drawing with inktense pencils but painting is my bread and...
Landscape Artist Of The Year
The program's over. Nice that I got a big soundbite talking about how I was going to be painting on a map. It's a shame that they only announced...