Here's the first of my post-birthday book reviews. This was a (slightly thin) 96 page paperback. The wife bought me it along with the Sennelier...
Posts that are not about paintings
Oil Pastel Testing
I learned a lesson from my first time using watercolours, markers and inktense pencils. And that lesson was not to attempt a masterpiece first...
Oil Pastels!
It's my birthday and the front page headline on stash news is that I’m going to be trying out oil pastels. The wife bought me a set of 24...
Painting Expressive Watercolour, Bridget Woods – Book Review
I'd been after this book for a while and got it as a Fathers' Day present. It's a 192-page paperback with some quite dense text in places so has...
Bridget Woods Exercises
The other book I got on Fathers' Day was Painting Expressive Watercolour by Bridget Woods. I'm taking my time over reading this one as it's one...
H1 2021 Survey Results
Thanks to everyone that participated in the survey. I got 26 responses, which is a new record. As usual, there were surprises for me in there. Here...
Vibrant Watercolours, Hazel Lale – Book Review
This is quite exciting. I got two art instruction books from my oldest for Fathers' Day! I've read this one already and am ready with my review....
Recognition!
Wow! Casey Affleck just shared one of my works on Instagram and he already has over 1500 likes. If you're here after seeing me on Casey's...
H1 2021 Survey
I need some help please guys. It's been a busy first half of the year and I could do with finding out which of my works are most popular. I've...
Pulling Your Paintings Together, Charles Reid – Book Review
You have to be patient waiting for the prices of these Charles Reid books to drop to something at the high end of acceptability but this one...
Watercolour Textures, Ann Blockley – Book Review
This one's 128 pages long. It's a hardback and was going for only £8.50. I just had to buy it. There's no way I could leave it sitting there at...
Abstract Beginnings
Yesterday I kicked off an abstract painting. I put on some masking tape and some directional masking fluid spatters. Then laid on some nice thick...
Planning Is Everything
No painting for me today. Instead, I'm going to be spending the afternoon planning paintings to do over the next few days. I've had a stroll...
Webb On Watercolor, Frank Webb – Book Review
If you've not discovered the camel camel camel website before, you should really check it out. It monitors the prices on Amazon of whatever CDs...
Book Review Rating Policy
I saw the other day that I'd reached fifty pages linked to the subject of book reviews and thought it was about time that I said something about...
Colour And Abstraction, George Blacklock – Book Review
This book was going cheap on Amazon the other day and it was on my wishlist, so I exercised my market timing muscles and bought it. It's a 128...
A Six Colour Palette and the Mind The Gap Approach to Colour Theory
Yesterday's painting got quite messy and I found that, when I removed the painting from my watercolour block, some of the paint or ink had leaked...
Best Of The Wildcards
I wanted to push that Spider-Man drawing down the list and it's still another five days to the weekend, so I thought I'd do something different and...
Landscape Artist Of The Year
I'll be in this week's Landscape Artist Of The Year as a wildcard. Sky Arts is free to view and is available via both Freeview and Freesat. I...
The Big Swatch
After settling on a palette with three reds, three blues and three yellows (counting raw sienna as a yellow), I was keen to produce a new set of...