...a plethora of creative nonsense...
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: 6 minutesWelcome to Volume 2 of my Inside the Sketchbook series, where I have scanned and presented my sketchbooks, in the hope that they will be of use and interest to other Artists. This is a black sprial bound A4 Sketchbook, from Poundland – they produced …
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: 5 minutesOne feature I very much enjoy on the Jacksons Art Blog is the insight into other artists sketchbooks. Often this is something very personal and many artists would flinch at this idea – it is reputed that Turner once chased a woman round a table …
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 minutesI think we’vr had a marginally better summer this year, or at least subjectively, I have managed to experience more of it from somewhere otger than sat in the office. The other evening I took the new Mungyo colours out in the front garden in …
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhile 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) …
Reading Time: 2 minutesI have again been doing less photography recently, and a lot of it has been using my phone. I never thought that I would say this, but it is very convenient and (other than not having an aperture priority setting) covers as much as my …
Reading Time: 2 minutesI 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, …
Reading Time: 2 minutesAfter 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 …
Reading Time: 3 minutesI 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, …
Reading Time: 3 minutesI’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 …