Category: Landscapes

Heading Home, Queendown Warren

I wanted to try something different today.  I've had a go at doing a conventional landscape painting in three glazes using the Notanizer app.  The...

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Vasquez Rocks

Today I'm back to old ways, not just painting a landscape but also allowing colours to mix on the paper and in the palette rather than just...

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The Buttery, Christ’s College

Today I'm back to painting after a few days off getting my feet under the table in a correspondence chess tournament.  And I'm back with another of...

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Inside New Court, Christ’s College

I needed to paint something other than portraits and, while looking around my Cambridge college's website, hit upon the idea of painting the inside...

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Out On Queendown Warren

  A tale of two paintings today.  It wasn’t supposed to come out like this but I've ended up with one in the background and one on the foreground....

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The Shard

It feels as if the big year end winddown has started.  This will be my final painting of the year but probably not my final post.  It's based on a...

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New Court In Fineliner And Artgraf

I was hunting around on YouTube the other day for demonstrations of people using Artgraf blocks.  What I really wanted to see was people drawing...

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Ellie’s Spot

I've done another painting of Queendown Warren today.  This isa bench that I walk past pretty well every day.  If it's been raining a lot, I go for...

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Roughtor, Dartmoor

Tempting though it is to keep painting portraits and figures, I do need to keep up the landscapes, ready for LAOTY of I make into a pod or the...

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The Sandstone Kagoule

I really shouldn’t be painting on Mondays.  Monday is housework day and after I've had breakfast, done the housework, finished my daily four mile...

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Neptune

This is the second in my series of paintings of the planets and today it's Neptune.  There was a question on University Challenge the other week...

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Craighouse, Jura

Spin The Wheel!  Last night I relaxed in my recliner chair in front of the telly (but reading a book) with a Jura mal5 that had been stored in old...

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Dalwhinnie Distillery

It's the weekend and the builders are off for the weekend so I'm back in the studio for a couple of days.  What to paint though?  Well, I can't...

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Free Horse Manure

I took my phone out with me today on my daily four mile walk through Queendown Warren, hoping to find some good subject matter after feeling a jot...

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The Mukurob In Green Warm

After a huge gap of twenty seven days, I was back on the watercolours today.  I was feeling a bit bereft of inspiration, so went for The Mukurob...

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Disapproval From Mount Rushmore

Another watercolour today.  I wanted to have another go with the desert supergranulators supplemented with cool blues after they worked out so well...

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Inverie In Tundra Colours

I didn't stay away long.  I'm back to paint Inverie again, this time using the tundra supergranulators.  I've chosen a different viewpoint and was...

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