Category: Inks

Crash Landing

And here's the companion piece to go with 1983…(A Merman I Should Turn To Be). The process for painting it is exactly the same. Both paintings...

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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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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...

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The Listener

My Dad's had a new kitchen fitted.  When I dropped in to see him, I rescued a bunch of old kitchen shelves from a skip in the drive with the...

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The Wind Cries Mary

I was short of ideas today, so watched a few Jean Lurssen videos on YouTube for inspiration.  I was impressed by one "exercise" she did (for...

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Time

This run of village paintings is all very well but if I don't vary things around a bit, I'll settle into a rut and never get any better.  So I...

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Life On Venus

I needed to do some painting this week.  I enjoy doing portraits with markers and figure drawing with inktense pencils but painting is my bread and...

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The Tree Of Life

My second painting of the day was a lot more successful. The underpainting was again in ultramarine blue, raw sienna and burnt sienna.  With two...

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One For The Bin

All my artwork, good or bad, goes up on this website.  That's why I'm showing you this abomination. I saw a Jean Lurssen video this morning in...

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The Glamour Of The Snow

I thought a bit of watercolour painting was overdue, so I've been out there this morning running off this little number.  The thunder started as I...

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The Hidden Gorilla

I've finished the experimental painting that I started on Thursday. I’ve added more watercolour.  This again is mainly Prussian blue, Indian...

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Another Experiment

I've been taking another look through Ann Blockley's Watercolour Workshop over the last couple of evenings, so was in the mood for another of those...

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We Will Make Them Give Us Light

  After throwing my heart and soul into that last watercolour I wasn't ready to stop for the day.  I needed to "warm down" by doing something more...

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DNA

And here's the second of the day.  This is all out abstract.  I cracklepasted a board a couple of days ago (with watercolour ground applied to the...

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Schneesturm

Two paintings today, both on cracklepasted board and both with the help of acrylic inks to bring out the cracks.  This is the first. This one...

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Stormy Abstract

And here's my second effort of the day.  Another with a specially prepared crackle paste surface.  This time, the special guest in the surface was...

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The Hills Are Alive

I think it must have been four days ago when I prepared a couple of crackle paste surfaces for painting.  I started painting on them yesterday but...

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Now What Are You Barking At?

And here's my latest Jane Betteridge inspired painting on an unusual surface.  It's my first go using crackle paste.  I bought an acrylic canvas...

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