Gear

Not much to report this year. I have these three new books: reviews to follow in due course. And some silicone mats that I can use to paint at my...

I keep talking about these and there must be people out there who have no idea what I'm talking about. These are polystyrene chips, used for...

No painting again today. I'm playing in an online correspondence chess tournament at the moment. I've won one of my eight games but the other...

Two posts on one day! It's been a while since I extended my MGraham palette to six colours and a revised set of swatches is long overdue, so I've...

The dust has finally settled and I can reveal that there were four art books in my birthday stash this year. Here they all are. All four will be...

More birthday art gear stash. I was given some cash and spent a big chunk of it on some more crystalline watercolours. I have five new colours:...

It's that time of year again. And today I was delighted to receive this set of 125 Sennelier oil pastels, a big numerical upgrade on my existing...

Not much artwork this week but I did spend yesterday applying wax to some unframeable paintings. I got the idea from a Liz Chaderton video earlier...

While I'm partway through today's painting and waiting for a layer to dry, I thought I'd take the chance to introduce a new recruit. I've had the...

My 112th soft pastel arrived in the post today, filling up my wooden pastel box, so I was straight out to the studio to swatch all 56 of my new...

Happy Christmas everybody. I'm busy rushing round finding homes for all my presents before I go for my daily walk. But then I thought, why not...

Before my next painting, which will be in soft pastels, a long overdue experiment. If I’m ever to sell soft pastel paintings (and I'm planning on...

I’ve invested in some new gear. This has been on the cards for a while but it was having to measure out three grids of different sizes for the...

Today's a busy day, what with this being the first of three planned posts. Another birthday present to try out, or at least a freebie that came...

I had just the right amount of time to spare today to do some swatching, and it's the turn of the M Graham landscape watercolour set. It's an odd...

The swatching continues with the soft pastels. As I said before I have a set of 28 portrait colours, a set of 14 cloudy sky colours and a set of 14...

Looks like today's going to be a swatching day. I started with the crystalline watercolours. These are made by Jackmans and are only available...

And here's the second post of birthday stash. Here's what we have: There are loads of soft pastels. I’ve never used these before but, if...

Here are the four new books I got for my birthday. Reviews will be posted up here in due course. I've also ordered another book, one that's an...

So it was my birthday yesterday. I have three new art books and have ordered a fourth, along with some interesting new art gear, with some birthday...