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 sexual relationships with…
Apparently it’s Draw A Bird Day, I only heard about it today and am not yet sure who started it and why it might be RSPB. But I thought it…
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…
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…