Category: Media

Crystalline Watercolour Swatching

Looks like today's going to be a swatching day. I started with the crystalline watercolours. These are made by Jackmans and are only available...

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2024 Birthday Stash 2: New Media

And here's the second post of birthday stash. Here's what we have: There are loads of soft pastels. I’ve never used these before but, if...

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Paul Auster

I started this one last night and finished it this morning. It's unusual for me to spread something over two days. It's because I started late...

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Station Road, Newington

And here's the last of my series of nine posterised paintings of Newington. It's based on a really old photo of Station Road, probably predating...

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Newington Pelican Crossing

Back to the real business today and it's the eighth of my nine posterised. Newington landscapes. I'm now on to the two colour schemes that are the...

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No Ma’am: We’re Musicians

Monday’s always a short day for me, so I thought this would be the perfect excuse to take a break from the posterised Newington landscapes and to...

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High Street, Newington, 1920s

I’m still building up this series of posterised paintings of Newington. Today I painted a scene on the A2 from the 1920s. The colour scheme is the...

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The Former George Inn, Newington

Next up in this series of posterised paintings is one on the green colour scheme, with layers of transparent yellow, cerulean blue and French...

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39 High Street, Newington

I bumped into the local vicar yesterday. He conformed that I'm invited to have a stand selling paintings at a Newington garden party at Newington...

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Two Kiln Oast, Newington

After a day off, I'm back to building a collection of paintings of Newington. Today I picked out a converted oast house next to the church. ...

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Mings Chinese Takeaway, Newington

Another Newington landscape tidy and once again it's using the Notanizer app. Today it's Mings Chinese Takeaway and I've painted it using the...

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A Cold Day In Newington

I was approached by our local vicar the other day. As well as being vicar in Hartlip, he's also vicar in the neighbouring village of Newington. ...

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Porto City Hall Tower

Today's painting is the second, after The Transfer, to be inspired by a photo taken by my mate Olly on his recent holiday in Portugal. Whisper it,...

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The Tatra Mountains, Slovakia

More watercolour! More European mountains! More Slovakia? No. Let me stop you there. These mountains are in Slovakia; yesterdays were in...

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Julijske Alpe, Slovenia

Back to watercolours today. I've played all the Grateful Dead in the box of CDs that currently sits in my studio, so I won't be jamming with the...

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The Lane That Ran East And West

After seeing none of my portraits selling at the Upchurch art & craft exhibition over the weekend, discussing a couple of landscape exhibiting...

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