...a plethora of creative nonsense...
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: < 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: 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: 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 minutesWhile I tend to wait until I am at least part way through a set or project, I thought I would put this up now. This is an idea I want to explore further, based on my Backstreets and Rooftops photographic project from some years …
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 minutesI once read an article on Youth Crime, which had a wonderful quote from a teenage participant in the 70s, along the lines of “someone gets a wierd idea and then it just goes from there. As you will know, we like to break up …
