Landscapes

Because The Night

I was in an experimental mood today.  I wanted to try out more of my new Inktense pencil colours, the saddle brown and sepia ink not having been...

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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...

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Yaugher Lane, Queendown Warren

We’re getting close to that time of year when the oil pastels start melting in my hands and become unusable so, with today being a lot colder than...

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Secret Tunnel Under The M2

The weather forecast said that this afternoon would be a lot warmer than yesterday, that the morning's wind would have calmed down and that there...

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Ardbeg Distillery

I'm back to painting distilleries.  Today it's the Ardbeg Distillery on the island of Islay.  I've deviated a bit from my normal rule here as I...

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Towards Leysdown-On-Sea

The weather forecast was for quite a mild day with no rain, so I packed up for another plein air trip.  Today I felt like a trip to the seaside and...

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Ponte Delle Tette, Venice

I started this coloured pencil painting yesterday and finished it today.  It's a bridge in Venice and one that gets its name from how prostitutes...

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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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Lula’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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