Wetcanvas have a weekend drawing event, the WDE. Participants choose a photograph, from a provided selection, that they paint or draw in their choice of medium. They then show the…
Back in November I finally got round to setting up a Twitter Account and had the idea to do a sketch or painting of The Early Bird That Catches The…
Here’s a casein painting of a Red Panda for Illustration Friday. I have to admit that the Red Panda is not an animal I’m familiar with and, until yesterday, I…
Liquorice? (Or licorice if you’re American), is the root of the herbal plant Glycyrrhiza glabra. A sweet tasting extract can be obtained from this root and has been for millenia,…
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…
Here’s another recent casein piece. I actually finished this just before the Roman soldier but I wanted that up on the Illustration Friday site asap so wrote its blog post…
There was a Roman reenactment at Dover Castle in the first week of August – Clash of the Romans – with two teams taking part in a show of strength…
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….