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...
Posts that are not about paintings
The 2021 Palette Collection
And here it is, the 2021 12-pan palette. The squad has finally been announced. The loser in yesterday's trail of the reds was permanent rose....
Trial Of The Reds
It's that time of year when my mind turns to selecting a squad of colours to occupy my palette. Well, one of my palettes. I have a palette of 24...
New Year, New Look
I've had a play around and come up with a new look to the website for 2021. Any good?
Landscape Painting Essentials, Johannes Vloothuis: Book Review
I've had my eye on this book for a while, so ordered it as soon as I'd opened all my presents and the Christmas Amazon furlough was over. It's a...
2020 Survey Results
Thanks to everybody that participated in the survey. There were 21 responses and these were the results, with some surprises in there as...
A Date For The Diary
Wednesday 3rd February, 8pm, Sky Arts. That's when I'll be appearing as a wildcard. Best make sure you can access Sky Arts before then.
The Big 2020 Artistic Actuary Survey
The year's nearly over so I've created another survey. As well as diversifying into markers and inktense pencils, my watercolours have moved in a...
Landscape Artist Of The Year 2021
I've got my entry in early for Landscape Artist Of The Year 2021. I needed to submit a landscape painting. I chose Sedona, Arizona. I was...
Another Abstract Underpainting
The markers and inktense pencils haven't really been working out for me over the last week or so, so I thought I'd better brave the cold outside...
Colour And Light: A Guide For The Realistic Painter, James Gurney – Book Review
This might be the last book review for a while as it's the last of the books from my birthday stash. It's the James Gurney book that I've heard so...
Inktober All Year Long, Jake Parker: Book Review
This book has been accused of plagiarising Pen & Ink Drawing by Alphonso Dunn. Just watch this video https://youtu.be/bG3ENcAdWBM and make...
The Artistic Actuary has a Facebook page
So I now have a Facebook page. If you'd like to see my artwork popping up on your newsfeed, please head to Facebook, search me out and like me....
The Complete Urban Sketching Companion, Gabriel Campanario, Stephanie Bower & Shari Blaukopf – Book Review
Another book review, only two days after the book was published. This is a 256-page, A5-sized paperback. It's a mashup of four books from the...
Exposure
Headed over the road to the Rose & Crown at Hartlip to order a lunchtime takeaway for tomorrow (GCSE results day). I couldn’t resist taking...
Expressive Figure Drawing, Bill Buchman – Book Review
And it's time for another book review, and again it's a book on figure drawing. After this I really need to do more artwork before reading the two...
Figure Drawing For Artists: Making Every Mark Count, Steve Huston – Book Review
Time for another book review. This is 192 pages long, and is flexibound, meaning it’s a paperback but with a cover that's bent inwards along the...
Painting By Design, Charles Reid – Book Review
This 144-page paperback is one of those books that's difficult to categorise. The title and subtitle on the front page make it sound like it's all...
Strengthen Your Paintings With Dynamic Composition, Frank Webb – Book Review
Now this is interesting. I just assumed that all books on composition were going to be similar, covering the same sort of stuff. The only book...
Landscape Artist Of The Year 2021
I've had an amazing day today as a wildcard at Landscape Artist of The Year at a mystery location. The first couple of hours painting were quite...