...a plethora of creative nonsense...
This is a parent catagory for posts on the various subjects and styles of my artistic practice. The natue of Wordpress means you may stumble here accidentally rather than on to the more specific catagories. Feel free to look around while you are here.
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: < 1 minuteA very long time ago I got out the paints for the first time in ages, and painted “A Somewhat Psychedelic Seascape” – a slightly random and virulent acrylic on canvas. This last week I revisited this in watercolour. This was a bit of fun …
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhile in Hebden Bridge the other week I picked up a copy of Painting Calm by Inga Buividavice – an interesting book of watercolour ideas and techniques. In there was this globe idea which I have played with and expanded upon. I’ve chosen distinct pairs …
Reading Time: 3 minutesI have finally manage to do something I have been meaning to do for a while, and actually get out and do some painting outdoors, or “En Plein Air” as they like to call it. I recently made a pocket set – a literally pocket …
Reading Time: 3 minutesFor what is essentially a fairly unassuming little path, the track that I walked up past The Lizard nature reserve in Wymondham has seen quite a bit of artistic action and has now prompted me to take on a few similar scenes. So after the …
Reading Time: 2 minutesNot, as the title may suggest some kind of Italian starter, rather one of the times that the middle aisle in Aldi has something interesting, in this case a set of “dimensional acrylics”. I actually got these some time ago, but had a painting that …