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…
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,…
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…
This Miner’s Lamp was done as part of a Paint-a-Long on Wetcanvas. I created a monochrome underpainting with black and white acrylic gouache (they smell so stongly!) and then glazed…
My faithful palette knife. It’s the only one I have, used mostly for mixing colours rather than painting.
Another of the quick one-a-day paintings.
I decided it would be very good practice to do a number of quick one-a-day paintings. These are very quick paintings that I’ll do in under an hour. I plan…
I fished out this old painting of an apple. It was my attempt at a glazed apple after this very useful post on Wetcanvas.
This little painting was done for a wetcanvas project. If you’re an artist but not familiar with wetcanvas then do check it out, it’s an online forum for artists; it’s…