I didn't waste any time sitting around thinking about doing a blue and orange painting and went straight into action this morning with another...
Category: Southern England – Other
Windsor Castle
Another watercolour landscape today and another one completed not long after lunch. I can feel myself settling into a routine of painting in the...
Lewes Castle
Here's a question for you. Who had a UK number one in the 1979s with D.I.V.O.R.C.E.? Good guess but you're wrong. It was Billy Connolly with a...
Avebury Stones
I was ready today to take a second stab at painting something with the Schmincke Shire watercolours. I learned some lessons from my first go that...
The Red Lion, Weston
It was looking too hot outside today to venture out painting, so I looked through my files for something I could paint in a shady spot in the...
Frank’s Wood, Leith Hill, Surrey
It's getting cold and wet outside so the number of watercolour and oil paintings that I'll be doing the rest of this year is numbered. Today I...
Castles Made Of Sand
This is my second attempt at a painting with a complementary colour scheme. The two colours are Winsor orange and French ultramarine. In Quiller...
Landscape Artist Of The Year
The program's over. Nice that I got a big soundbite talking about how I was going to be painting on a map. It's a shame that they only announced...
Bramble’s
Today's job was to prepare a couple of experimental crackle paste surfaces to use later in the week but I found myself pining to do some painting,...
All Roads Lead To Lady Churchill’s Rose Garden
This post was written on 30 July 2019 but is only being released now that the program has aired. Now, this is more like it. Not that I was ever...
Lady Churchill’s Rose Garden, Chartwell
This post was written on 30 July 2019 but is only being released now that the program has aired. I've had an amazing day today as a wildcard at...
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...
Lightning Over Henley-On-Thames
6 June 2018 Some more lightning, this time over Henley-On-Thames. You can probably tell that this painting's been cropped. There was a car and...
Lightning Over West Wellow
27 May 2018 There were some cracking thunderstorms in late May and I thought I'd have a go at painting one. I dug around on the BBC News website...