I'm finally back onto the watercolours today. The weather looked good outside but the rain came along so I moved to the garage. It would have...
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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...
Ruby
I did say that Jean Haines had inspired me to go out and paint animals. And three days after the book was published, I've painted our cavalier...
The Whisperers
With those two jobs out of the way, I was ready to kick off my painting for 2022. Be warned though, my first watercolour of the year is never...
Number Two Twinned With Hartlip Church In The Snow
And here are those two paintings together. Number Two and Hartlip Church In The Snow.
Number Two
Remember Hartlip Church In The Snow from a month or so ago? I gave it to Barbara next door as an 80th birthday present. Well, her daughter...
Sastrugi
There's a long story behind this one. I didn't have much time to paint today but thought I'd been away from the brushes for too long so that I'd...
The Cities Were Abandoned And The Forests Echoed Song
It's been a bad day at the office today. I wanted to use some of the lessons I learned the other day after sorting my paintings by colour key. I...
Hartlip Church In The Snow
A month or so ago, someone from the village church was asking about the possibility of me painting something they could use for the church's...
Moon, Turn The Tides…Gently Gently Away
I'm currently reading How To Make A Watercolour Paint Itself by Nita Engle and thought I'd try out some of her ideas today with a stormy sea...
Hartlip Church In The Sun
It's the 29th of August already! The local church has another tea and cake afternoon on 12th September and I promised them I'd have another...
Castles Made Of Sand
This is my second attempt at a painting with a complementary colour scheme. The two colours are Winsor orange and French ultramarine. In Quiller...
Clare Bridge In Complementary Colours
Anybody else that has read it will know straight away after looking at this that I'm reading Color Choices by Stephen Quiller. There's a full...
Still Raining, Still Dreaming
Having learned my lessons, here's my second attempt of the day. There are only three colours in the whole painting. Payne's grey and light red...
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...
Malayavanta Hill, Near Hampi
I'm still on the watercolours and, yet again, I’ve gone for some precariously balanced rocks. These seem to be my thing in 2021. They're great,...
The Graduate
It's been eleven days since my last piece of work but with the sun out and some chores out of the way, the gazebo's back up in the garden and I'm...
Cliffside Tree, Queendown Warren
I've been meaning for a couple of weeks to head out and do some plein air painting. After a thunderstorm yesterday, the weather felt cooler and...
A Desert Episode
In that last painting, Six Ways To Look At The Moon, I was so pleased with how the bottom left subpainting turned out that I thought I'd have a go...
Six Ways To Look At The Moon
I'm a bit short of ideas for watercolours at the moment. Maybe I need to wander around the village again but only if I'm prepared to put in some...