Before the weekend I was anticipating spending two whole days creating lots of Christmas Cards to send out to friends and family… I did manage to spend quite a lot of… Read More »The Pressure of Handmade Christmas Cards
Finally some of the madness has gone out of the week and I’ve spent a pleasant hour or two this afternoon painting this handsome watercolour squirrel hoarding nuts for winter. (photo… Read More »Hands off my Nuts! Squirrel Study
With my beautiful roses finished, or at least being given some distance while I decide if anything more needs doing, it felt like a good time to return to this… Read More »An Update on the Surf…
Well, I’ve had a lovely afternoon and lots of fun playing with water, I’m not sure I’ve done anything very clever though :-P. The intention was to darken some of… Read More »Day 365: Ready For a Soaking, Pt. 3
This may well be the last stage of this painting… I had an idea that I might darken the foreground water area, to make it recede a bit, but I’m… Read More »Day 185: Cormorant on a Post, Pt. 5
I’m afraid I got caught up in trying to improve the rust today and almost ruined it as a result. I tried to add some richer colour with gold ochre,… Read More »Day 179: Cormorant on a Post, Pt. 4