Poppy Field by Claude Monet is such a lovely fresh painting. Women and children taking a stroll in beautiful fields. Their hats and parasols brightening the scene alongside the dainty…
‘Gypsy with a Cigarette’ by the French painter Edouard Manet is the next Master Copy I’ve attempted (in that cheap and nasty canvas pad I mentioned in the Cezanne post)….
An attempt at a famous painting by Paul Cezanne. I bought a cheap book of canvas sheets, the surface is really rough and awful to paint on. And I finally…
I finally made it to the Pompeii exhibition (Life and Death in Pompeii and Herculaneum) at the British Museum. There was so much to see about the daily lives of…
Another old piece I’ve found. I love the combination of colours here. But most of all I love the winton canvas paper that Winsor & Newton no longer seem to…
It’s been quite a few years since the cable cars (often called the Dangleway) between North Greenwich and the Royal Docks were completed. There are 3 of these very elegant…
This month’s Virtural Paintout is in the Azores where this gentleman was captured waiting for a bus.
I took a photo of this lovely apple(?) blossom at the start of the month (we had quite a late spring this year), thank goodness because I haven’t been back…
A really good online painting challenge is The Virtual Paintout. You get to do a plein air painting in the comfort of your own studio, using Google’s Street View. A…
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