One Colour a Day – Week 11

One Colour a Day – Week 11

Reading Time: < 1 minutes We went to Lincoln this weekend, so the week was quite oriented to that. VArious of the colours are quite random, though the end of the week is inspired by Cross Country Trains, Lincoln, and the blue hour (from when I photographed more trains at 

One Colour a Day – Week 10

One Colour a Day – Week 10

Reading Time: < 1 minutes Slightly inspired by cooking and Skies this week. We made duck, and my partner didn’t get hers as all the children decided to have it, then didn’t eat it. I ordered Barnsley Chops in the Beck and Call, which were far rarer than asked for. 

A few bitesize tutorials from t’Interwebs

A few bitesize tutorials from t’Interwebs

Reading Time: 3 minutes Facebook knows… Unsuprisingly I have had about a million and a half adverts for dubious watercolour tutorial sites crop up on my facebook recently (if you want an interesting article by the way, have a look at this) and have mostly ignored these as attempts 

Pine Trees

Pine Trees

Reading Time: < 1 minutes While on our first (hopefully of many) walks of the year I took a photo, as I have before, of the pine trees on Parkside Road. I’m always fascinated by these trees and (I am not sure if this is cut to avoid the road) 

Over The Lake  – Letting The Paint do It’s Thing (AKA so quick it feels like cheating…)

Over The Lake – Letting The Paint do It’s Thing (AKA so quick it feels like cheating…)

Reading Time: 2 minutes I got to searching last night for a bit of guidance on painting dark value images in watercolour, and stumbled upon this website. Wandering away from my initial search there are a lot of paintings in a very impressionist style – very much against fussing, 

One Colour a Day – Week 9

One Colour a Day – Week 9

Reading Time: < 1 minutes A week of cooking and dining! Pancake day, followed by Valentine’s Day (and a slightly groggy morning from curry and wine), then going out drinking for a rare occurance. We made Vermont Baked Beans and Carlin Pea Casserole.

One Colour a Day – Week 8

One Colour a Day – Week 8

Reading Time: < 1 minutes The forgotton week. I didn’t really keep up with this week. Hence a few pallete remnants really.

Flowers – Wet on (very) Wet

Flowers – Wet on (very) Wet

Reading Time: 3 minutes After poppy that crept into my One Colour a Day book the other week I went off on a bit of a crazy exploration of wet on wet flowers over the last few days. This was very much an extensive exploration into how the paint 

Shipley Glen in Watercolour

Shipley Glen in Watercolour

Reading Time: 2 minutes After the watercolour country lane tutorials I completed the other day I was inspired by the colours to work from some picture I took in Shipley Glen some years ago. I also wanted to play with the square format some more. Often the challenge in 

Three iterations

Three iterations

Reading Time: 3 minutes I have been taking some time out of manic unrestrained creativity to try and follow a few tutorials, after the success with the Winter Landscape I painted before Christmas. This has got me thinking a little about the development of my practice in watercolour which, 

One Colour a Day – Week 5

One Colour a Day – Week 5

Reading Time: < 1 minutes Week 5 of my One Colour a Day project. I have been ill half the week and managing not much more than the odd bit of Train Simulator, and so for no real reason other than that these are some train inspired colours. The final 

From the Sketchbooks

From the Sketchbooks

Reading Time: 3 minutes I’ve talked a little previously on the subject of sketching and experimenting. There’s a lot of different thought’s and practice on using sketchbooks, some artists meticulously plan their images, with sketches, tonal sketches, draft versions and so on. Others feel that doing test versions removes