Back to the pastels today. I need to keep practicing with this medium so that I'm ready for Landscape Artist Of The Year if selected, and to show...
Category: Queendown Warren, Kent
The Other Travellers Came Walking Down The Track
<Spoiler alert: stinker incoming> After reading Robert Dutton's book, I was in the mood for a charcoal painting. Not just any charcoal...
Like A Rolling River
I’m taking a break from portraits for a while (which could be anything between a week and a couple of months) to concentrate on landscapes. And...
Entering Queendown Warren
The bathroom fitters have the day off so I'm not stuck indoors and am back in the studio today. After spending all week on market portraits, I was...
View From The Lightning Tree, Queendown Warren
The year end hiatus is over and I'm back out in the studio. For once, my first punting after a break isn't an Inktense pencil figure: I've gone...
Messing Around
It's been a whole week since I last posted. Sorry about that. Too much other stuff on. Choosing a bathroom, choosing blinds, attending an 80th...
Untitled Basic Track
The nights are fair drawin' in and the days are getting colder. I thought it was cold enough today to dig out the oil pastels again. I've not used...
Long Hot Summer Night
This is another painting that's been brewing for a while. If I don't look at the clouds and see naked women, what else is there to see? Well,...
The Tryst
I had another go at a sky painting in soft pastels today but I'm already veering off the beaten path by going for a cloud formation that looks like...
Towards Where Warren Cottage Should Be
I’m still trying to build up a reserve supply of paintings that could replace any that are sold at the Rose & Crown. After three successive...
In From The Storm
The news came through last night that two of my paintings that were on display at at the Rose & Crown have been sold. So I needed to find a...
First View Of Queendown Warren
Here's my first ever painting using the soft pastels. Because I wasn't expecting to be able to capture much detail, I picked a pretty plain view...
Camp Of The Dog
No book reviews or swatches today. It's time to start trying out all these new art supplies, starting with the crystalline watercolour. For subject...
Meanwhile, At The Rose & Crown
I just took a cheeky look in my local pub, The Rose & Crown in Hartlip. And up on the wall of the restaurant are twelve of my paintings, all...
Coming Soon To The Rose And Crown, Hartlip
Now this is exciting. The Rose And Crown, my local pub in Hartlip, wants to put some of my local painting up on the wall of its restaurant. It...
The Lightning Tree, Queendown Warren
I’m on a coloured pencil landscape roll and, as promised yesterday, I'm having another go at combining coloured pencils with fineliners. This...
Barbed Wire Fence, Queendown Warren
With the football on three times a day and me needing to fit in my four hour walk, the days are looking a little short at the moment. Not too...
The Lane That Ran East And West
After seeing none of my portraits selling at the Upchurch art & craft exhibition over the weekend, discussing a couple of landscape exhibiting...
Queendown Warren: Rain On The Way
Sometimes my choice of what to paint is based on some really weird reasons. Today I looked the box of CDs I have in the studio and thought it would...
Queendown Warren In Three Complementary Colour Schemes
Not much time to paint again today but I do need to keep in practice. I decided to go for an experimental painting that wouldn't take much...