It's been a good summer of test cricket. I was watching it yesterday and suddenly realised that Sky cricket pundit Rob key would make a great...
Category: Geographical Breakdown
Exposure
Headed over the road to the Rose & Crown at Hartlip To order a lunchtime takeaway for tomorrow (GCSE results day). I couldn’t resist taking a...
The Rose & Crown, Hartlip
First the news. I will be heading along to filming of Landscape Artist Of The Year in a couple of days as a wildcard entry. That's why I've been...
Stephen Hawking Reading The Guardian
Ok. Time to try out the inktense pencils properly. I had two gos at doing a painting of a young Stephen Hawking reading The Guardian. The idea...
Archway Into St Michael’s & All Saints Church, Hartlip
Another bit of plein air painting and this time it's my local church in Hartlip. Just like last time, it's in the key of purple cool, made up of...
Stockbury Church
Time for a new experience. To get some practice in (just in case I make it on to Landscape Artist Of The Year as a wildcard) I thought I'd better...
Christ’s College, Cambridge
I've still not given up hope of being invited into Sky Landscape Artist Of The Year as a wildcard, so with that competition likely to be focused on...
Lancashire Sunset
Today's painting was inspired by a photo by a guy called Brandon Lee Keefe of a sunset from St Peter's Church in Hersham. I say inspired rather...
The Glamour Of The Snow
I thought a bit of watercolour painting was overdue, so I've been out there this morning running off this little number. The thunder started as I...
The Hidden Gorilla
I've finished the experimental painting that I started on Thursday. I’ve added more watercolour. This again is mainly Prussian blue, Indian...
461 Ocean Boulevard
Back out in the garden painting today and this is what I came up with. It's 461 Ocean Boulevard, the house that Eric Clapton lived in while...
New Court, Christ’s College, Cambridge
I saw a great stock photo on LinkedIn the other day. There was a sky in it that was yellow and pink on the left and blue, pink and purple on the...
My Sunset’s On Fire
See, this is what happens when I go in without a real plan. After all that experimenting with triads, I wanted to have a go at a painting using...
Super Blood Wolf Moon
Today was going to be about bright colours. I was still in my orange fixation but was also wanting to give the viridian another good workout. I...
We Will Make Them Give Us Light
After throwing my heart and soul into that last watercolour I wasn't ready to stop for the day. I needed to "warm down" by doing something more...
Bubble Horse Horse Bubble
It's a bank holiday, the sun's out and I'm back on the watercolours for the first time in months. I've been pining for orange over the last couple...
Two Self Portraits
All these portraits I've been rattling out with markers and I only just realised that I've not done any self portraits with the markers yet. Time...
Different Tables
I'm still at Medway Services and thought I'd carry on drawing when I saw this guy in green arrive. He looked a bit sad in that beanie and had an...
Costa Coffee, Medway Services, 19 February, 2020
Off to a different Costa Coffee this time - one overlooking the M2. Rather than lots of little vignettes I thought I'd try some bigger pictures...
Costa Coffee, Hempstead Valley, 12 February 2020
I spent a bit of time in Costa this morning practicing furtively drawing people at speed. I concentrated on getting lines down and added the...