Yesterday I took part in the Wetcanvas Weekend Drawing Event again. The host of this drawing event often includes a challenge. This week we were told: Your challenge: A Chiaroscuro…
It’s October now and we still haven’t seen the back of Covid 19, we’re actually in the 2nd wave and here in the UK new tiered rules are about to…
Lockdown has eased and things are beginning to go back to normal, or rather, a new normal. Unlike other countries face mask wearing hasn’t really been enforced in the UK…
Paul Gauguin seems to have been quite a selfish man, abandoning his wife and children in Europe whilst he went swanning off across the globe to have relationships with underage…
Apparently it’s Draw A Bird Day. The 8th day of April has been set aside, informally, to remind us to try and enjoy life’s simple pleasures and to get away…
The Illustration Friday word is ‘Dice’ and I decided it would be fun to illustrate the common phrase with its double meaning. I had a sample of Canson Heritage 640gsm…
It’s been a very long time since I last did a virtual paintout and when I checked out the virtual paintout site he, Bill Guffey, seems to have stopped running…
The Wetcanvas Acrylics forum had their usual monthly painting task, the Different Strokes Challenge. This month it was a still life which we had to set up ourselves and for…
Just a quick mention of a portrait I painted recently. It’s of a young woman in a green turtleneck jumper the neck of which is pulled up over her mouth….
Here’s another casein painting for Christmas. This is actually a reworking of an acrylic painting I did a few years ago. The painting is of a Christmas tree angel holding…