I've saved the best until last, and here it is. Goldfinch On Cheese. It's quite a normal landscape compared to the other two paintings but it's...
Watercolour
We’re Going To The Zoo Zoo Zoo
And here's my second of the day. The big mistake I made on this one was to paint over everything with watercolour ground. It ruined the sky...
It’s Quiet Out There…Too Quiet
So, as I said, I've been cutting up failed paintings And reassembling the best bits into new works of art. I've cone up with three new works. ...
New Court, Christ’s College, Cambridge
I saw a great stock photo on LinkedIn the other day. There was a sky in it that was yellow and pink on the left and blue, pink and purple on the...
My Sunset’s On Fire
See, this is what happens when I go in without a real plan. After all that experimenting with triads, I wanted to have a go at a painting using...
Super Blood Wolf Moon
Today was going to be about bright colours. I was still in my orange fixation but was also wanting to give the viridian another good workout. I...
We Will Make Them Give Us Light
After throwing my heart and soul into that last watercolour I wasn't ready to stop for the day. I needed to "warm down" by doing something more...
Bubble Horse Horse Bubble
It's a bank holiday, the sun's out and I'm back on the watercolours for the first time in months. I've been pining for orange over the last couple...
DNA
And here's the second of the day. This is all out abstract. I cracklepasted a board a couple of days ago (with watercolour ground applied to the...
Schneesturm
Two paintings today, both on cracklepasted board and both with the help of acrylic inks to bring out the cracks. This is the first. This one...
Key Street, Florida
First things first. This painting was inspired by a photo by Harvey Jones that I saw on the BBC website. He has a Flickr account...
Stormy Abstract
And here's my second effort of the day. Another with a specially prepared crackle paste surface. This time, the special guest in the surface was...
The Hills Are Alive
I think it must have been four days ago when I prepared a couple of crackle paste surfaces for painting. I started painting on them yesterday but...
Bramble’s
Today's job was to prepare a couple of experimental crackle paste surfaces to use later in the week but I found myself pining to do some painting,...
Now What Are You Barking At?
And here's my latest Jane Betteridge inspired painting on an unusual surface. It's my first go using crackle paste. I bought an acrylic canvas...
Mount Rushmore
Now this is more like it! A painting on an experimental surface that worked. The faces were all torn out of the Mail On Sunday dated 11 August...
Blue Skye
After reading that Jane Betteridge book, I thought it was time to start painting on some unusual surfaces. First up was painting on a map. I...
Shell Ginger
I thought I'd have a ago at some Jean Haines style painting today by painting a shell ginger flower. The flowers are white on the outside and...
A Miserable Night In Torquay
I still have three new books sitting on the shelf and it would be very easy for me to stop painting for a month while I read them all. But then I...
Hondo
I thought it was about time I did another Western silhouette painting as they're always popular. Today's painting is based on a still from Hondo, a...