Posts that are not about paintings

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...

No painting today as it's the first Sunday in the month, which means tea and homemade cakes up at the local church. Instead, I looked at the sun...

I’ve meaning to do this for ages but I finally got around to buying red and green Artfraf blocks to extend my collection to eleven colours. I'll...

I'm taking a day off from painting, so here's a post with some swatching. I saw that Jacksons were doing deals this week on inktense pencils, so I...

I might have retired as an actuary but you can't keep me away from spreadsheets.  On my walk today, rather than thinking about what painting I...