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Lancashire Sunset

Today's painting was inspired by a photo by a guy called Brandon Lee Keefe of a sunset from St Peter's Church in Hersham.  I say inspired rather...

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The Glamour Of The Snow

I thought a bit of watercolour painting was overdue, so I've been out there this morning running off this little number.  The thunder started as I...

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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...

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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...

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Last Days Of Summer

Another quite traditional looking painting today.  I was watching a YouTube video this morning where Gordon MacKenzie was showing how to paint...

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Denali National Park

I thought it was about time I did something more conventional.  Nothing abstract, no acrylic inks, no salt.  Just a plain simple landscape.  And I...

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Waterfall Green

It's been cold outside for the last week or so and I'm going through a phase where I'm too messy to be able to work indoors so there's been a bit...

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Winter Roots

And for my second painting today, I thought I'd just throw everything on the paper and see what came out.  Here's what I ended up with. I...

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Whoa!

So, after the last painting was a quinacridone magenta free zone, I had to follow it up quickly with another painting. Something experimental,...

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Horsehead Quarry

I thought I'd try something different. After checking out some Jean Lurssen videos on YouTube I thought I'd invest in some acrylic inks and have a...

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Schilthorn

21 May 2018 After the success with mountains a couple of days before (Susten Pass) I thought I had to have another go at a mountain scene from that...

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