It's freezing outside so I only have one painting to add to the Hartlip collection today. I picked this pair of cottages because they were white....
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The Street, Hartlip
Two paintings in one day! It's as if the hardest bit about painting is the planning and that creating a painting that's already been planned is so...
Thatch Cottage, Hartlip
And here it is, the first of a series of paintings based on my home village of Hartlip. This is Thatch Cottage, a cottage that's been rethatched...
Cathy Jean
Back to the inktense pencils and figure drawing. All these different artistic styles and media are like spinning plates and if I don't keep...
Valdeinfierno In Purple And Orange
That last painting, The Thin Ice, felt like a flop to me but got lots of likes on Facebook and on DeviantArt. The only good thing it had going for...
The Thin Ice
After the disaster that was The Brimham Rocks, I wasn't happy. I wanted to chase the frustrations out of my system by bashing out a second...
The Brimham Rocks
Today's subject is The Brimham Rocks, a rock formation somewhere near Harrogate in North Yorkshire. My rocky paintings have been pretty good this...
Richard Feynman
I had another read of my Charles Reid book last night (Painting By Design) and saw a couple of his videos on YouTube this morning, so thought it...
Moose On The Phoenix Trail
Reading that George Blacklock book during the week I started to think about how artists like Dali, Mageitte and Blacklock himself have common theme...
I See A Red Door And I Want It Painted Black
Where do I start with this one? Well, I’ve been thinking of doing something like this all week, dividing the paper up and doing lots of little...
The Old Man Of Tarsuinn
Today's subject is the Old Man of Tarsuinn, another rocky formation but this time closer to home on the Isle of Arran. Looking through my swatch...
The Hoodoo Watch
The weather was good enough today to spend a bit of time painting properly in the garden. The subject matter is a set of hoodoos. These are weird...
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...
Elizabeth Olsen
I'm back onto putting my Avengers team together. Next up is Elizabeth Olsen as the Scarlet Witch. The Avengers aren't the Avengers without a...
Tom Holland
Before I talk about this one, a big hello to anyone that's here for the first time after seeing my brief appearance on Landscape Artist Of The...
Landscape Artist Of The Year
The program's over. Nice that I got a big soundbite talking about how I was going to be painting on a map. It's a shame that they only announced...
Becca And Daniel
Too much swatching, time for some artwork. I wasn't feeling up to going the full watercolour today so decided to do my first bit of inktense...
The Big Swatch
After settling on a palette with three reds, three blues and three yellows (counting raw sienna as a yellow), I was keen to produce a new set of...
Colour Bugs
Now that the squad is selected, it's time to follow up that trial of the reds with a full scale workout for the new set of colours. Rather than...
Trial Of The Reds
It's that time of year when my mind turns to selecting a squad of colours to occupy my palette. Well, one of my palettes. I have a palette of 24...