...a plethora of creative nonsense...
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, …
Reading Time: < 1 minutes These are just a couple more landscapes I have been working on in the run up to Christmas. The first of these is another from Wales – Yr Hen Bont in Cwm Hafodyredwydd. I’m not quite happy with this. I loved the effect from the …
Reading Time: < 1 minutes Some further experiments with brusho, I have been playing more with using it like inks and painting stems and grasses.
Reading Time: 2 minutes After coming back from Scotland I have had a play with some painting based on the scenery there, working from the photos I took. This is the view of the sunset from Rockcliffe over Urr Water. In retrospect I think this was always going to …
Reading Time: 2 minutes Back in the glory days of film photography, there were all manner of cheap and cheerful fun cameras doing the rounds. One of the best of these has to have been waterproof cameras. Often you could pick these up as disposables but there were also …
Reading Time: 3 minutes After having a go in Kirkstall and Knaresborough recently, I wanted to try some more long exposure water shots. We are lucky in Leeds to be one of the greenest UK cities (not that living in Hyde Park feels like this at times) and Meanwood …
Reading Time: 2 minutes After the food festival the other day it seems I am back in Roundhay again. It’s easy to forget how much Roundhay Park has to offer. It is quite huge, over 700 acres in total. After being under various ownerships over centuries, Roundhay park was …
Reading Time: 3 minutes Kirkstall is a very interesting area of Leeds, if you spend the time to look around. This is where the river aire flows into the city though a mish mash of old industry, reclaimed nature reserves, and of course the Abbey, once the true gateway …
Reading Time: 3 minutes Following on from my recent water pictures in Kirkstall I have had a further play with the neutral density filters and slow shutters in Knaresborough. The first set of these are just off Riverside, under the castle. There’s not as much movement in the water …
Reading Time: 2 minutes I took myself round and about Woodhouse Moor for a lunchtime walk, and to try and capture some of the colours of Autumn. Autumn is a funny month, nature displays some of the best colours of the year, but the weather so often fades these …