It's absolutely roasting outside. I promise never again to claim it's too cold outside to paint. But this weather! Too hot, too sweaty and too...
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Balanced Rock, Big Bend National Park, Texas
I was feeling a bit short of ideas so I googled for precarious rocks again and found this one in Texas. It looks a cracker with its interesting sky...
Kjeragbolten
Yesterday's paintings were bad. To help me find some form, I thought I'd look for some precarious rocks. I managed to find Kjeragbolten, which is...
King Street, Cambridge
So here's today's second painting. I'm prepared to put the first one down as a warmup but this one needs to be better. It's another view of New...
Domination
Back to painting today after a bit of a break for rain and football. I've done two paintings today but it's been a while, so don't expect a...
Gregg Allman
There was no way I was going to stop at Cher, so I moved on to Gregg. I wanted something that would contrast Cher's chiaroscuro against a coloured...
Cher
Before I head back to watercolours tomorrow, I thought I really should give the marker pens a quick go. So I googled for black and white celebrity...
Gabrielle
More inktense figure drawing as promised. This is a new model for me: Gabrielle. For colours today, I used bark, baked earth, leaf green,...
Kristina Marie
It's been raining for a few days and there's a lot of wind predicted for tomorrow morning, so the gazebo's down and I'm not painting in the garden....
The Insanity Of Jones
I'd got the last page of my watercolour block so thought I'd go all out on applying some texture to the painting surface without having to worry...
Clare Bridge, Cambridge
Back to the painting today after what's been quite a long break. Today's subject is Clare Bridge from Clare College, Cambridge, a subject that's...
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...
Cotoneaster
It's been a bad day at the office today. It started when I found that I'd plugged in the iPad to charge last night but not switched the socket on....
The Far Country
I was feeling keen to start putting some of these Bridget Woods lessons into practice. Part of the lesson was to put together the monotone...
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...
Hartlip Church Tower
It's been twelve days since I last painted in watercolour. Just too many things going on at the moment, including the Euros. It's not that these...
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...