Got to keep practising in case I make it to Landscape Artist Of The Year so it's another soft pastel landscape. This is a scene from my village of...
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Messing Around
It's been a whole week since I last posted. Sorry about that. Too much other stuff on. Choosing a bathroom, choosing blinds, attending an 80th...
Highland Cow
Somebody local who works with number two son in the kitchen at the Rose & Crown expressed an interest in buying a painting of a highland cow if...
Early Twentieth Century Hartlip
Time to work on building up a reserve of paintings ready to display at the Rose & Crown when others are sold. For today's subject I picked out...
In From The Storm
The news came through last night that two of my paintings that were on display at at the Rose & Crown have been sold. So I needed to find a...
Camp Of The Dog
No book reviews or swatches today. It's time to start trying out all these new art supplies, starting with the crystalline watercolour. For subject...
Station Road, Newington
And here's the last of my series of nine posterised paintings of Newington. It's based on a really old photo of Station Road, probably predating...
High Street, Newington, 1920s
I’m still building up this series of posterised paintings of Newington. Today I painted a scene on the A2 from the 1920s. The colour scheme is the...
Mings Chinese Takeaway, Newington
Another Newington landscape tidy and once again it's using the Notanizer app. Today it's Mings Chinese Takeaway and I've painted it using the...
A Cold Day In Newington
I was approached by our local vicar the other day. As well as being vicar in Hartlip, he's also vicar in the neighbouring village of Newington. ...
The Lane That Ran East And West
After seeing none of my portraits selling at the Upchurch art & craft exhibition over the weekend, discussing a couple of landscape exhibiting...
Queendown Warren: Rain On The Way
Sometimes my choice of what to paint is based on some really weird reasons. Today I looked the box of CDs I have in the studio and thought it would...
Hartlip War Memorial
It's been a while since I last went on a dash & splash so I thought I'd give it a go today. How this works is that I head outside and do some...
Doctor Zachary Smith
Sometimes I receive messages and I just have to act on them. I had the telly to myself last night and managed to find a 1960 episode of The...
Towards Warren Cottage
I’ve caught up on my sleep now and can finally complete my three watercolours in three days challenge, two days late. The challenge for the third...
Lewes Castle
Here's a question for you. Who had a UK number one in the 1979s with D.I.V.O.R.C.E.? Good guess but you're wrong. It was Billy Connolly with a...
Third Court Room, Christ’s College
Back to Christ's College tidy for another indoor landscape. This is a room in Third Court, probably in Y staircase. My third year room was in W...
Kingsferry Bridge Under Three Different Skies
It's a watercolour landscape day today. I've been saving up some photos with amazing looking skies that have been posted on Facebook by a couple...
Out On Queendown Warren
A tale of two paintings today. It wasn’t supposed to come out like this but I've ended up with one in the background and one on the foreground....
New Court In Fineliner And Artgraf
I was hunting around on YouTube the other day for demonstrations of people using Artgraf blocks. What I really wanted to see was people drawing...