...a plethora of creative nonsense...
Reading Time: 4 minutesI have always had a bit of a journey with acrylics. While it has been around in use by artists since the 1960s, Hockney being a key early adopter, I do not recall it really being about in the 80s and early 90s when I …
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhen I lived in Hyde Park one of my favourite photography subjects was the sunsets. I’ve always wondered what it is that can make them so colourful in this unassuming inner-city area – I am guessing the polution and poor air quality has a lot …
Reading Time: 2 minutesIt’s Christmas, or has been, it’s bloody cold (what a surprise), I have new paper… Christmas always becomes chaotic in our house and it’s sometimes hard to take time out and do al the things I would like to in my time off work. I’ve …
Reading Time: 3 minutesI’ve been following a few of the free tutorials offered by Geoff Kersey, a landscape artist whose work I have found very appealing in some books I have. The painting above is very interesting as it almost seems that it should not work. It’s very …
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI just thought I would post these as I am quite pleased with them and they are the beginning of a bit of a themed project over winter, These are sketches, based on mini-tutorials on https://watercolourlandscapes.co.uk/ on painting snow and mountains. Then I thought I …
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWeek 4 of my One Colour a Day book project. The week has started quite nicely, though the westher is still pants, but we have all started to feel quite poorly towards the end of the week…
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThese 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: 2 minutesWhen we left for York to go to the markets the other weekend, it was incredibly misty and frosty, thurning the fields and industrial areas of South Leeds into ‘scapes of grey and white. I am kicking myself now for not taking a large number …
Reading Time: 3 minutesAs those who have viewed my photography at length may well know, I’ve spent quite a lot of time in Howarth, mostly because of it’s location on the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway. Sometimes this has been with the smaller and younger generation, others we …
Reading Time: 2 minutesSo on the eve of the new year, we have been treated with a little bit of proper winter. Doubtless we’ll end up having a pretty shit spring and I will eat those words, but actually having some snow and the chance to have a …
Reading Time: 2 minutesIt’s been incredible misty the other day, and we went for a wintery walk in the park. I took these images, but thought I’d do something a bit different with them, and procesed them in Adobe Camera Raw into this slightly sepia toned high contrast.
Reading Time: 2 minutesAnd here we are again. Always I try and avoid getting roped into weddings. And always I seem to end up doing it. Caiti and Rich’s wedding was in a rather nice pub in Appletreewick though, and so although I was actually feeling quite ill …