The year end hiatus is over and I'm back out in the studio. For once, my first punting after a break isn't an Inktense pencil figure: I've gone...
Soft Pastels
Talisker Distillery
I was busy yesterday putting together my applications for Portrait and Landscaoe Artist Of The Year yesterday. The PAOTY deadline isn’t until 7...
The M2
It's another soft pastel landscape today. After yesterday's success, I thought I'd have another go while my head was still buzzing with Robert...
Islay Beach Cottage
After reading the Robert Brindley book, I was itching to get started on a new soft pastel painting. I picked out a view of a cottage for rent on...
Long Hot Summer Night
This is another painting that's been brewing for a while. If I don't look at the clouds and see naked women, what else is there to see? Well,...
The Tryst
I had another go at a sky painting in soft pastels today but I'm already veering off the beaten path by going for a cloud formation that looks like...
And The Dirty Old Track Was The Lower Hartlip Road
After reading the Sandra Orme book, I'm straight in with a sky painting. What with me having a set of "cloudy sky" colours with no reds and my...
Towards Where Warren Cottage Should Be
I’m still trying to build up a reserve supply of paintings that could replace any that are sold at the Rose & Crown. After three successive...
Ansleigh In Soft Pastel
I thought I'd better have a go at a figure with soft pastels today. I've used them for a landscape and a portrait, so only fair that they should be...
Rupert Thomson
Back to painting today and I've had my first go at a portrait using the soft pastels. Today's subject was the author Rupert Thomson. I started...
First View Of Queendown Warren
Here's my first ever painting using the soft pastels. Because I wasn't expecting to be able to capture much detail, I picked a pretty plain view...