It's that time of year when a certain job comes up. It's time for the annual self portrait, something that I've been looking forward to for a...
Category: Geographical Breakdown
Climate Change
It's been a while now since my last painting but I decided earlier in the week that today was going to be my first watercolour day of 2023. The...
Critiqued By Liron Yanconsky!
Today I was honoured to have my work critiqued on YouTube by Liron Yanconsky, an artist that I hugely admire. The link...
The Old Bridge, Latheronwheel
After reading those two books and coming up with this painting, I think I may finally have "got" coloured pencils. It's all about adding multiple...
Steps Up From The Street, Hartlip
The World Cup is over and there's only four days to go to Christmas. It's hard not to switch to wind down mode and watch Westerns all day but I do...
Shirley
Another house in the village but this time I've not been approached by the owners to paint it. This one's a housewarming gift. The guy that's had...
Number Eighteen
I was approached a week or two ago by a guy on the village who said he'd be interested in buying a painting of his house if I ever did one. I...
The Wood Of The Dead
It feels a while since my last painting but it's only been a week. My excuse is that I've been playing in a correspondence chess tournament. I...
Black Rock Cottage, Glencoe In The Key Of Purple Cool
So, as promised, here's another painting of Black Rock Cottage, but this time using more conventional watercolour.ours rather than the...
Black Rock Cottage, Glencoe In Tundra Colours
I promised people on LinkedIn that I'd start posting my artwork up there. Yesterday I put up my first figure drawing since retirement and it was...
Looking Up At L3, Christ’s College
And finally today, we're back home in Christ's College. This was the first to be drawn on Sunday and the last to be painted today. It's a view...
Looking Out From Clare College Memorial Court
Next up is Clare College, and this is a view looking out from Memorial Court through the big archway into it. Here's the drawing I did on...
The WongAvery Music Gallery, Trinity Hall, Cambridge
I've had two trips to Cambridge this week. On Sunday I had to drop off number two son at his Trinity Hall accommodation. He's just starting a...
Stockbury Church Tower
For my final dash and splash of the day, I headed out to Stockbury Church and settled down in a spot that I'd painted from before. After not being...
MB Farms, Stockbury
After drawing the pub, I wandered up the road to MB Farms, Stockbury's village shop and the closest shop to those of us in Hartlip. MB Farms...
The Harrow, Stockbury
Sunday is always a good day for a dash and splash and today I've trekked out to my neighbouring village of Stockbury to do three drawings before...
Hills In Shire Colours
As I said in the last post, I felt like I could do a second quick painting today. Because I’d managed to paint an imaginary landscape quite...
Hills In Tundra Colours
The rain's finally stopped, so I'm back on the watercolours at last. I thought I'd let myself back in gently by painting an imaginary landscape...
Four Views From A Californian Bus Stop
The idea came to me over the weekend when I was watching a famous Hitchcock film on the telly. There's a famous scene of someone waiting at a bus...
Thatch Cottage, Hartlip – The Full Monty
Someone approached me the other of about the possibility of painting Thatch Cottage in my home village of Hartlip. It's a cottage I've painted...