Unfinished business At the end of last week’s post, after having made two attempts at the homework I’d been set on Paul Talbot-Greaves’ course ‘using green in watercolour’, I was deliberating a third effort. I had in mind some changes that I’d like to try to achieve, which I hoped might improve on the efforts …
I hope that everyone was able to enjoy a happy and safe New Year and that you’ve been able to start 2022 with a spring in your step! As is so often the case, I find myself starting the new year still tidying up a lot of loose ends from the previous year! I’m still …
Well, it’s been another 52 weeks and, with this final entry of the year, another 52 blog posts! Thanks so much to anyone and everyone that follows my weekly watercolour meanderings. ‘Meeting’ so many people via the blog has been one of the most delightful and unexpected bonuses of my time spent painting. It’s also …
Last Saturday saw the inaugural meeting of the Brighton Painting Group and I was delighted to be in attendance! The premise is simple. It’s an totally free untutored group that will meet every second Saturday of the month and welcomes artists working in any medium and of any level of experience. The rendezvous point for …
Things are a little frenetic at the moment, mainly for reasons far too dull to expand on here, but it means that my time for painting and blogging is even tighter than usual. In some ways this makes this post all the more surprising because, despite these circumstances, I’m delighted to be able to post …
Bid now for the @heartresearchuk #anonartproject As many people that have been following my blog for more than a year or so will know, each year I support Heart Research UK’s charity art auction by donating some A5 watercolour paintings. This year’s auction is live now and bidding will close on Sunday 31st October. I’ve …
I really have no idea where the time’s going at the moment so I hope you’ll forgive me if I dive straight in with this week’s watercolour painting: This was an odd one in so many ways! I painted it in a bit of a hurry and I ended up painting different parts of it …
As I so enjoyed the painting I did last week, I thought I’d stay with familiar hay bales territory for my next watercolour. In fact, it’s hard to imagine how I could have stayed any closer without painting exactly the same view again. The view for this new painting was from exactly the same spot …
After what seems like an age, I finally managed to tear myself away from my sketchbook and return to something a little larger. I had on a shelf a piece of paper I’d already stretched. It had been there since well before my back went – so a good six weeks or so. When I …
I’m not sure why, but I’m currently feeling more pressed for time to spend watercolour painting than for a long time. It would seem that at the height of lockdown, when many others were baking and catching up on long overdue DIY jobs, I spent more time painting than ever before. Now, as life is …
