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 […]
I am now teaching 4 art classes locally. If you’d like to be updated on times, prices and venues, please sign up to my email list here. It will just be for information about the art classes, and is all compliant and legal with data protection law. I can see why people didn’t do it before […]
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 […]
We went to the same spot again, but it was so windy we had to go down to the beach. We found a sheltered spot and decided what we wanted to paint from that area. There weren’t as many people around, but we still spent a good amount of chatting to people. We learned that […]
A work in progress. Practicing my waves from the comfort of my studio. I was very good and planned it out before hand, and then accidentally got purple on my brush and that is why the under painting is purple. Mapping out the lighter tones. Getting the colour in. A snapshot of my palette. It’s […]
