...a plethora of creative nonsense...
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Reading Time: 4 minutesI have been meaning to try out Rosa Watercolours for a while, in my general quest/obsession to try every colour or preparation on the planet. Rosa are a Ukranian brand, with a good reputation. They are also very inexpensive, and lets face it buying Ukranian …
Reading Time: 4 minutesLondon, day 2. The general itinery seemed to split itself into West End, East End, and today we head off towards Covent Garden and the west end shops. I have enduring memories of visiting Covent Garden Market as a child, though my last quick visit …
Reading Time: < 1 minuteJust a very quick one today. I am not quite sure how these came about, other than just splashing colour about, but I decided to have a very quick play with reducing a scene, in this case stubble burning, down to basic colours and shapes. …
Reading Time: 2 minutesIt’s Christmas, or has been, it’s bloody cold (what a surprise), I have new paper… Christmas always becomes chaotic in our house and it’s sometimes hard to take time out and do al the things I would like to in my time off work. I’ve …
Reading Time: 2 minutesidyll/ˈɪd(ɪ)l,ˈʌɪd(ɪ)l/nounnoun: idyll; plural noun: idylls;an extremely happy, peaceful, or picturesque period or situation, typically an idealized or unsustainable one. I have been slowly developing a theme in some of my watercolour work. Talking to some of my musical and lyrical conceptualisation of Hiraeth, these are …
Reading Time: 2 minutesI have been playing around again with the thing that led to my resurgence in watercolour – You will recall a couple of years ago I purchased a small Cotman Florals Pocket Set – working with the simple method of small dots of paint which …
Reading Time: < 1 minuteJust a quick one. Christmas has been a bit more subdued this year, though a fine selection of dining was done, and a fine sellection of presents obtained. Here’s the annual Christmas card. And here’s a few quick tree pictures… Normal service will be resumed …
Reading Time: 3 minutesI’ve been following a few of the free tutorials offered by Geoff Kersey, a landscape artist whose work I have found very appealing in some books I have. The painting above is very interesting as it almost seems that it should not work. It’s very …
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI just thought I would post these as I am quite pleased with them and they are the beginning of a bit of a themed project over winter, These are sketches, based on mini-tutorials on https://watercolourlandscapes.co.uk/ on painting snow and mountains. Then I thought I …
Reading Time: 3 minutesWhile down in Norwich the other month, I could not of course resist the lure of Jarrolds art shop again. This is alternatively heaven, or a way to spend all the money you don’t have, if you are like me, with a mixture of high …
Reading Time: 2 minutesAs I have mentioned, when making watercolours there’s always some left over in the mortar and I like to use this to prepare grounds for future work. These are some recent earths, on the poundland paper which I use for cheap expreimenting. These were inspired …
Reading Time: 2 minutesWe are lucky nowadays to have a massive array of complex pigments and dyes at our disposal, both organic pigments such as Quinocridones, Pyrrols, Perylenes etc, and the increasing inoganic metal pigments still being developed – Sicopal Spinel pigments, Zirconium Vanadium pigments, the miraculous Yinmn …