...a plethora of creative nonsense...
Reading Time: 4 minutesWe decided to make a further attempt at Hebden Bridge and Todmorden the other day not, of course, not prompted by the aquisition of more Wallace Seymour, but solely by the suggestion of slightly better weather. After something like 41 days of solid rain in …
Reading Time: 4 minutesI have always had a bit of a journey with acrylics. While it has been around in use by artists since the 1960s, Hockney being a key early adopter, I do not recall it really being about in the 80s and early 90s when I …
Reading Time: 3 minutesSchminke have released a set of limited edition watercolours, developed and produced in collaboration with various artists. I’d thought about ordering some of these, but generally tried to behave slightly, until they appeared in Fred Aldous, when I was in town shepherding my child about …
Reading Time: 3 minutesI mentioned the other day about the balance I am trying to achieve between a loose and slightly impressionistic style, and the more formal traditional watercolour – something that at the moment is a key part of developing my practice. Here’s some of the other …
Reading Time: 4 minutesOk, so this sounds like some weird Monty Python extrapolation, and I guess I am being a little abstract here, but hey, that’s my brain. As is very obvious, I have developed a bit of an obsession with sourcing the weirdest and wonderfullest, or perhaps …
Reading Time: 4 minutesThis is a bit of a round up really, of various landscape pictures I have been playing with over the last year. I’m thinking quite a lot at the moment about my style, my practice – I have a deep love for detailed, “realistic” (insofar …
Reading Time: 4 minutesAs seems to be not uncommon with my brain, I find something, I get obsessed. I’m talking of course about more Wallace Seymour watercolours. To be fair, these are not going to become my primary materials, but there is something about them that speaks to …
Reading Time: 4 minutesAfter the small set of Daniel Smith Primatek Watercolours I received for Christmas a couple of years ago, I have slowly collected a few more from this range. I am very much still in two minds about these. There is increasing muttering that these are …
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIt’s been a bit quiet here for a few reasons, the run up to Christmas, focussing on renovating my studio, and also the fact that my beloved Epson V500 has died, leaving me without a decent scanner and unable to scan much of what I …
Reading Time: 12 minutesThis is the first in a series of posts, leading up to a display and discussion of the various palletes (of which there are many) that I have acquired, put together and use in my watercolour practice. Both for the purposes of adding my opinions …
Reading Time: 2 minutesJust a little window into an idea I have been working on, an idea of very simple, virtually monochrome landscapes, taking influences from Japanese aesthetics, and my search for minimalism in watercolour. I am trying to get to grips with how I want this to …
On Pigments
Reading Time: 11 minutesGetting to the bottom of how pigments (and indeed different preparations thereof) behave ultimately can become a bit of a rabbit hole. I will aim in this post to wander, perhaps cicuitously, through some of my thoughts and considerations when exploring and using different pigments …