Artist & Tutor
When work takes up my full day, I’ve been doing some still life and interiors drawings or value studies. In some instances I have gotten carried away with myself and stayed up too late doing the drawing. I’ve found the make art everyday challenge useful in that it’s made me go down the studio to […]
Part of the painting a day challenge is after dark, after work, or in stormy weather, finding something to paint. I’ve always been meaning to paint my mums cyclamen plant. Bright colours, challenge of the symmetrical pot, and now I can add a contrasting background with my shadow box. First attempt didn’t go so well. […]
I went away on holiday, and it snowed here! I just caught the last day before it melted. Here’s the new set up! I forgot paper towels. Note assistance dog number two exiting stage south. Preparatory sketch and brush roll. I was aiming to keep the details loose, and capture the light in clear blocks […]
In August I drove down to a Chorley, Lancaster, to give a demonstration. It was painting seascapes in acrylics. It was a very well behaved art group, with a fancy camera set up, and once I’d figured out were to stand so the camera wasn’t behind my head, it worked very well. There was […]
I’ve just looked back at 2018 art goals and I’m impressed with how many I’ve achieved. Some just by happenstance! I am now teaching four private art classes, you can get more information on them here and sign up to my teaching/workshop email list here. I didn’t quite enter a competition a month, but I did enter art exhibitions outside […]
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There were some things I was really struggling to capture when I was painting outside. The sea keeps moving! So from the numerous photos I’d taken, I painted a study of the ways, white horses and wet sand, the points of interest. I started off with a purple underpainting as I accidentally got purple on […]
Sometimes when it’s raining, its better to stay in the car. Fortunately the rain was on an angle and I had a clear view of the view! Due to looking at my new book on composition I am seeing L shaped compositions everywhere so picked out the White House with the fence leading up to […]
I was watching a youtube video by Stefan Baumann. And the video boils down to: if you want to get better at painting trees…. go paint trees. So that is what I did. I walked out my studio and dragged my stuff with me. I parked in front of a tree I knew would have […]
The weather was amazing. So good I had to keep misting my acrylics on top of having a stay wet palette. We tucked down on the cliffs down the technically closed stairway and didn’t have to many people going on by. There were loads of rock poolers down on the beach. The view I was […]
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