I've been meaning for a couple of weeks to head out and do some plein air painting. After a thunderstorm yesterday, the weather felt cooler and...
Category: Landscapes
Balanced Rock, Big Bend National Park, Texas
I was feeling a bit short of ideas so I googled for precarious rocks again and found this one in Texas. It looks a cracker with its interesting sky...
Kjeragbolten
Yesterday's paintings were bad. To help me find some form, I thought I'd look for some precarious rocks. I managed to find Kjeragbolten, which is...
King Street, Cambridge
So here's today's second painting. I'm prepared to put the first one down as a warmup but this one needs to be better. It's another view of New...
Domination
Back to painting today after a bit of a break for rain and football. I've done two paintings today but it's been a while, so don't expect a...
Clare Bridge, Cambridge
Back to the painting today after what's been quite a long break. Today's subject is Clare Bridge from Clare College, Cambridge, a subject that's...
The Far Country
I was feeling keen to start putting some of these Bridget Woods lessons into practice. Part of the lesson was to put together the monotone...
Hartlip Church Tower
It's been twelve days since I last painted in watercolour. Just too many things going on at the moment, including the Euros. It's not that these...
Secret Door Into Hartlip Church
The Euros start today, so my paintings might slow right down over the next few weeks unless I can start getting out of bed earlier. There's only...
Stevenson Building, Christ’s College, Cambridge
I wanted to get back to painting buildings in landscapes, so picked out a photo of the Stevenson Building in Christ's College, Cambridge, the...
I See The Gods In Battle Rage On High
I don't know why but when I have something to do later in the day it affects my painting. I need to take my youngest to football training for 5pm...
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 Joy Of Six
I'm normally pretty good at restricting the number of colours in my paintings but sometimes I just need to let go and throw everything down. This...
Raiders Of The Lost Ark
This was quite quick to paint but took me all day to plan, so let's talk about planning first. I've had an idea for a while about doing a painting...
Orchard Lea, Hartlip
Someone in the village asked me if I'd be interested in painting her house. I gave her my standard answer, which is that I don't do commissions...
Footpath, Lower Hartlip Road
Back to the painting after a few days' break. This is another scene from the village. Follow that footpath up the hill over the field and you...
Archway Into Hartlip Church
Enough of these village houses! I wanted to paint some stones, so it's back to the church to paint this archway again. I first drew the archway...
Cuckoo Orchard, Hartlip
Somebody in the village approached me the other day about painting his house. We had a good long chat and I think he gets what my artwork is...
Hartlip House
After three days off watching the chess at the FIDE Candidates, I was back in the garden again painting another village scene. I'm pretty sure the...