I was out and about in the village yesterday, taking more photos and everybody was coming up to me asking whether I was taking photos of scenes to...
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View From Hartlip Church
And it's another Hartlip landscape! This is the seventh and last of the Hartlip landscapes that I put together value plans for a while ago. If I...
Footpath From The Village Hall To The Park, Hartlip
Back onto my series of Hartlip paintings with a bit of a clunker. Starting colours in this one were Prussian blue, Indian yellow, rose dore and...
For A Nosy Parker It’s An Interestin’ Job
After putting together the underpainting that I described in the previous post, I spent most of today trying to work out what to do with it. The...
Wisteria Cottage, Hartlip
Still on the Hartlip landscapes and today it's Wisteria Cottage. Not that I can see much wisteria there if any. The main three colours today were...
St Michael’s & All Saints Church, Hartlip
Back in the garden again for another Hartlip painting. Today it's the local church. The plan was to use four colours: French ultramarine,...
Craiglea And Sanquhar, Hartlip
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...