About a week ago, when I painted Garrow Farm in coloured pencils, I discovered the joy of jamming along to music with coloured pencils and just...
Category: Landscapes
Ancient Sorceries
I fancied giving the oil pastels another go today. It feels like too long since I came up with a decent oil pastel painting. I looked through my...
I Can Read Your Mind
So I had the first chance in a while to do some undisturbed painting in the studio. Well I say that but in reality I only started at 2pm and had...
Garrow Farm, Bodmin Moor
So here's the painting I've been busy with over the last couple of days. It's a deserted farmhouse on a Bodmin Moor, a scene that's been in my...
A Bit Of Wood
So what have you painted today? A tree. What have you called it? A Bit Of Wood - it's the name of an Alg…. 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. So I reached for...
Looking At You
So here it is. I've finally gotten around to using the second of the shelves I helped myself to when the in laws threw out that old fridge. The...
Stirling Castle
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....
Hever Castle
With the whole day available for painting today, I've finally completed a watercolour in the studio. Without wanting to take much time planning, I...
Hoodoo In The Chinle Formation
Afternoon all. First, the obligatory opening paragraph for this time of year. A big hello if you're here trying to decide whether to invite me...
Tree Looking Over Queendown Warren
Hello there, and a big hello if you're here trying to decide whether to invite me into one of the pods for Landscape Artist Of The Year. The...
The South Wind
Yesterday was a day off but I'm back painting again today. I'm still not feeling up to painting some dead serious watercolours with my usual...
Bowerman’s Nose, Dartmoor
Similar subject matter to yesterday but this time it's on Dartmoor rather than Bodmin Moor. This is a stack of granite called Bowerman's Nose. ...
Dragon Path
Preparation of the site for my art studio is now complete, touch wood, so I can go back to painting even if I'm still feeling a little stressed. I...
The Colours Of Nuuk
It's really cold outside today but I wanted to do some watercolour painting, so I picked some subject matter that had lots of simple shapes and...
View From Highest Point, Queendown Warren
Another plein air painting day today. I'm back in Queendown Warren again, but to keep things interesting I'm using watercolour rather than oil...
Chalk Face, Queendown Warren
I've been waiting a while for today to come round. The weather forecast was for the warmest day of the year so far and I've been itching to head...
Climate Change
It's been a while now since my last painting but I decided earlier in the week that today was going to be my first watercolour day of 2023. The...
Critiqued By Liron Yanconsky!
Today I was honoured to have my work critiqued on YouTube by Liron Yanconsky, an artist that I hugely admire. The link...
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...