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…
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.