I was flicking through the Tony Smibert book this morning looking for inspiration for two forthcoming eye on the other side of the glass paintings....
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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...
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...
Sgurr A’Fionn Choire And Baruch Na Frithe
The distracting FIDE Candidates Tournament is over and I need to get back to painting and make up for lost time. But the test match was on this...
The White Church, Comrie, Perthshire
Painting's been taking a back seat for a few days while I've been enjoying the cricket and the chess. But the test match is over now and it's a...
The Road To Glencoe
I risked doing an oil pastel painting indoors today. This landscape is based on the road into Glencoe from the East. I've been to Glencoe a...
The Old Man Of Stoor In Oil Pastel
I'm paying a second visit today to the Old Man Of Stoor on the Isle of Skye but this time with the oil pastels. This time, though, I'm using oil...
Ullapool
I fancied giving the oil pastels a go today and this is what I came up with. It's a view of Ullapool, a tiny town somewhere on the West Coast of...
Unidentified Scottish Hills
There's good news and bad news on the painting front. First the bad news. I won't be appearing on the next series of Landscape Artist Of The...
Glean a’Chroin
I felt inspired by one of the subpaintings in my last post (The Joy Of Six). It was the one in the bottom right. Winsor Orange and Indigo are like...
The Old Man Of Tarsuinn
Today's subject is the Old Man of Tarsuinn, another rocky formation but this time closer to home on the Isle of Arran. Looking through my swatch...
Blue Skye
After reading that Jane Betteridge book, I thought it was time to start painting on some unusual surfaces. First up was painting on a map. I...
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...
I was feeling up for a challenge today, so I decided I'd do a painting that was a set of twelve random vignettes and that I'd ask friends on...
Hadrian’s Wall
25 June 2018 I'd had some feedback that I was good at painting trees, so thought I'd better look for a good tree to paint. A bit of googling of...