I still have three new books sitting on the shelf and it would be very easy for me to stop painting for a month while I read them all. But then I...
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Hidden Village
This one's taken me a couple of days. After reading Ann Blockley's Watercolour Workshop, I thought I'd have a go at painting a random abstract,...
Last Days Of Summer
Another quite traditional looking painting today. I was watching a YouTube video this morning where Gordon MacKenzie was showing how to paint...
Bledlow Poppy
Well, I had a go at rescuing what was left after those two experiments. I painted over the sky, the trees and the orange background fields using...
Denali National Park
I thought it was about time I did something more conventional. Nothing abstract, no acrylic inks, no salt. Just a plain simple landscape. And I...
Sparkly Tree
After four paintings in a row based on the tried and trusted abstract silhouette style, I thought it was time for something different. I was in...
He Knows, Doctor, He Knows
I'd had a couple of requests to paint a Star Trek scene and this is what I came up with. It's based on a shot near the end of The City At The Edge...
Hotel California
After Free Bird and Comfortably Numb, I thought I'd have a go at another concert closer. Believe it or not, I was wanting to make this a realistic...
Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary, Where Did Your Garden Go?
For my second stripy gesso experiment, I thought I'd better try it out with inks. The gesso stripes this time are slanted, top right to bottom...
Path To The Lake
I was in an experimental mood today. I dug out the gesso and thought I'd have a go at applying it to the paper in stripes rather than all over....
Waterfall Green
It's been cold outside for the last week or so and I'm going through a phase where I'm too messy to be able to work indoors so there's been a bit...
Winter Roots
And for my second painting today, I thought I'd just throw everything on the paper and see what came out. Here's what I ended up with. I started...
A Windy Day In Whitstable
We went for a walk along the coast with the dog yesterday. On the way back from Whitstable to the car, the tide was in, the wind was fierce and the...
The Day Ends, Springfield, Virginia
This one was inspired from a Facebook post that I saw only four hours ago of a sunset in Springfield, Virginia. It looks nothing like the original...
Whoa!
So, after the last painting was a quinacridone magenta free zone, I had to follow it up quickly with another painting. Something experimental,...
Grand Teton National Park
I thought I should go back to basics and paint a normal looking landscape as these were popular on Facebook last year. This one is based on a view...
Purple Rain
Today's effort is Purple Rain. I was thinking of doing some sort of blizzard scene as I was in the mood to do a moody sky and to flick paint all...
Twist In My Sobriety
A second painting today and it's another abstract with inks. I was struggling to think of a name for it, so just picked the name of a Tania Tikaram...
Horsehead Quarry
I thought I'd try something different. After checking out some Jean Lurssen videos on YouTube I thought I'd invest in some acrylic inks and have a...
The Old Man Of Storr
It's a double painting day today. This time I've gone for a conventional landscape for the first time in a while. It's the Old Man of Storr on the...