Category: Geographical Breakdown

Craighouse, Jura

Spin The Wheel!  Last night I relaxed in my recliner chair in front of the telly (but reading a book) with a Jura mal5 that had been stored in old...

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Dalwhinnie Distillery

It's the weekend and the builders are off for the weekend so I'm back in the studio for a couple of days.  What to paint though?  Well, I can't...

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Free Horse Manure

I took my phone out with me today on my daily four mile walk through Queendown Warren, hoping to find some good subject matter after feeling a jot...

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The Mukurob In Green Warm

After a huge gap of twenty seven days, I was back on the watercolours today.  I was feeling a bit bereft of inspiration, so went for The Mukurob...

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Disapproval From Mount Rushmore

Another watercolour today.  I wanted to have another go with the desert supergranulators supplemented with cool blues after they worked out so well...

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Inverie In Tundra Colours

I didn't stay away long.  I'm back to paint Inverie again, this time using the tundra supergranulators.  I've chosen a different viewpoint and was...

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The Old Forge In Watercolour

I'm back on the watercolours and couldn't resist having another go at The Old Forge in Ivernie.  It was tempting have a go at this scene in tundra...

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The Old Forge, Inverie

This, or at least the building on the far left, is The Old Forge, a pub in the village of Inverie on the Knoydart Peninsula.  It was in the news...

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Torre Nubia

After that View From Ardtinish Castle, that dear old boy Howard has done it again and come up with another amazing holiday photo made up of simple...

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View From Ardtornish Castle

An old mate from Uni, Howard, was recently on holiday in the Scottish Highlands and Islands and posted loads of photos on Facebook.  The one on...

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The Mukurob (Finger Of God)

So after finishing Hazel Soan's African Watercolours I wanted to strike while the iron was hot and paint something influenced by the book.  For...

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Queendown Warren Car Park

So here's my first ever charcoal painting.  It's of the entrance to a car park in Queendown Warren, somewhere between Hartlip and Medway Services....

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Tundra Colours

This painting was long overdue.  I'd had these tundra colours for a while and had painted a few snowy scenes in Nuuk, Greenland plus the odd U.K....

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Look Over Yonder

I'm still on the watercolours today but not in the mood to work long and hard at a painting.  Maybe it's because The Ashes are on; maybe it's...

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Sky Above Hartlip Church

I'm back on to watercolours today and onto my proper palette rather than following any Schmincke supergranulator cheat codes, much as a love...

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A Hot Day In Nuuk

It was part 2 of the challenge today.  After painting a rocky scene with the tundra supergranulators yesterday, I wanted to paint an Arctic scene...

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Bridge Over The River Risopatron

So after that brief dalliance with the Artgrafs this morning, I was back to the watercolours in the afternoon.  For subject matter, I picked out...

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Heeeere’s Jonny

I’ve had an idea for another set of marker portraits to get started on but had just one page left in a sketchbook and didn't want the set to...

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