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….
Halloween is not too many weeks away and I decided to do a few illustrations with skeletons as a theme. One of the ideas I settled upon was of an…
I didn’t know you could get specialist shoes for ten pin bowling. I suppose I’ve never had reason to think about it, I’ve only ever been bowling twice! Apparently you…
Merry Christmas everybody and have a wonderful New Year! This piece was painted as part of the WetCanvas acrylics forum ‘Different Strokes’ monthly task. We were asked to paint something…
I hadn’t realised how much I use my palette knife until it went AWOL. What a disaster! I’ve only ever done 1 palette knife painting but I use it to…
I’ve been trying out Lana Vanguard Polypropylene paper, it’s made in France and similar to Yupo paper. I’ll stick to writing ‘Yupo’ though as it’s a much shorter and easier…
Who killed Cock Robin?“I”, said the Sparrow“With my bow and arrow”“I killed Cock Robin” This has been done on Crescent Illustration Board.
I bought an 8 board sample pack of Ampersand bords. I’ve heard a lot about their surfaces and have been looking forward to trying them out. The boards are 5…
An attempt at a very famous painting by René Magritte. And Finally! The last sheet in that awful book! Here’s my version of French artist Magritte’s The Son of Man. …
Abbott Handerson Thayer was a 19th Century American artist whose works included portraits, landscapes, animals and angels. I love Thayer’s paintings and this one of a pot of roses is…