After all that fun yesterday with the tundra supergranulators, I was ready to give them another go today, with another snowy mountain scene but one...
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Crash Landing
And here's the companion piece to go with 1983ā¦(A Merman I Should Turn To Be). The process for painting it is exactly the same. Both paintings...
1983ā¦(A Merman I Should Turn To Be)
I wanted to do something today that didn't involve using a photographic source. The idea was that I could watch the World Championship Chess at...
Tundra Colours
This painting was long overdue. Ā I'd had these tundra colours for a while and had painted a few snowy scenes in Nuuk, Greenland plus the odd U.K....
Look Over Yonder
I'm still on the watercolours today but not in the mood to work long and hard at a painting. Ā Maybe it's because The Ashes are on; maybe it's...
Egyptian Sorcery
Just a quick one today. Ā I had that one crackle pasted board still waiting to be used and wanted to cross it off my list so here goes. I started...
A Bit Of Wood
So what have you painted today? Ā A tree. Ā What have you called it? Ā A Bit Of Wood - it's the name of an Algā¦. Is it an interesting composition?...
A Victim Of Higher Space
I enjoyed painting the foreground in that last painting so much that I decided to go straight into another painting afterwards. Ā So I reached for...
Somewhere
Well this is something new. Ā I'm writing up a painting before I've taken a photo because it's being left to dry overnight and seems to still be...
The South Wind
Yesterday was a day off but I'm back painting again today. Ā I'm still not feeling up to painting some dead serious watercolours with my usual...
The Wood Of The Dead
It feels a while since my last painting but it's only been a week. Ā My excuse is that I've been playing in a correspondence chess tournament. Ā I...
Hills In Shire Colours
As I said in the last post, I felt like I could do a second quick painting today. Ā Because Iād 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. Ā I thought I'd let myself back in gently by painting an imaginary landscape...
Red House
Today's one of those weird days of the year. Ā The day before my birthday. Ā Who knows what sort of art gear or art books will appear tomorrow?...
Ancient Lights
Abstract landscapes don't drain me as much as serious paintings, so after the last one, I was ready for a repeat performance. After a little bit...
A Haunted Island
I'm taking a day off from serious watercolour painting today and going back to abstract landscapes. Ā I'm going back to the palette knife technique...
All Along The Watchtower
Let's start off with the important news. Ā I've been rejected by Landscape Artist Of The Year 2023, so won't be in a pod. Ā But I'll be applying for...
The Call
It's been a bad day today and that means I must have been painting with watercolour. Ā This bad run needs to come to an end soon. I thought I'd...
The Whisperers
With those two jobs out of the way, I was ready to kick off my painting for 2022. Ā Be warned though, my first watercolour of the year is never...
Sastrugi
There's a long story behind this one. Ā I didn't have much time to paint today but thought I'd been away from the brushes for too long so that I'd...