I finally managed to finish a Christmas painting last week, it seemed to take for ever to do. Actually I did two. The first, the main one at the top…
Should ballerinas be slender and svelte? Well these ones aren’t and they look nice and elegant to me! I had a trial pack of Stonehenge Aqua watercolour paper lying about…
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has had to send a letter to the EU asking for an extension so it no longer looks like Brexit will happen on the 31st of…
I’ve only ever subscribed to one glossy magazine in my life. For about 8 years, up until 2013, I received the digital painting magazine ImagineFX. I love that magazine and…
Those skeleton oil paintings are finished now and hanging quite nicely in my study/spare room/studio. There wasn’t actually that much more to do, just a little tidying up and a…
Here’s another recent casein piece. I actually finished this just before the Roman soldier but I wanted that up on the Illustration Friday site asap so wrote its blog post…
There was a Roman reenactment at Dover Castle in the first week of August – Clash of the Romans – with two teams taking part in a show of strength…
It’s very hard to leave an artshop without spending money, there are always so many things you’d like to try or things you need to stock up on. And things…
My painting schedule can’t keep up with my purchases, I seem to have accumulated so many canvas panels and boards I could practically open a shop! But I’ve just had…
On a visit to HobbeyCraft earlier in the year I picked up a booklet of watercolour postcards, Aquafine by Daler Rowney, got home and wondered what to do with them….