It’s been another tricky week for painting! The combination of putting my back out again (fortunately not as badly as a few years ago), along with it being my daughters’ 12th birthday (and everything that entails) has put painting way down the agenda. As I’m sure many followers of my painting progress will know, I’m …
Afraid that life is particularly frantic at the moment and leaving precious little time for what I’d call ‘proper painting’ In the meantime, I am trying to keep the mind and hand engaged with some sketching. Here’s the latest three woodland sketches that I’ve done. The first two are views from my local park, while …
Only a quick one this week as I’m feeling a bit pulled from pillar to post with various commitments! Here’s a painting based on one of the reference photos I took during our recent camping trip. The view looks across some fields from Mill Road in Arundel that runs along the perimeter of Arundel Castle. …
Some of you may remember the view of a country lane that I posted a few week’s ago following my last camping trip: I was quite pleased with this painting, but still felt a little disappointed with a few aspects of it. I did have it mind, and still do, to try this view again. …
It’s only as I come to write this that I realised the distinctly watery connection between two of my latest paintings! First up is a scene that I captured following our recent camping trip over Easter. We’d had some pretty heavy rain overnight and during much of the morning but, later in the afternoon, the …
Just a brief one from me this week as I’m feeling quite overwhelmed with the sheer volume of ‘stuff’ that’s going on – most, if not all of which has nothing to do with my creative endeavours! Cutting straight to the watercolour chase then, here’s a painting that I’ve done based on a reference photo …
Frosty Morning painting First up this week is a new half-sheet painting of a frosty morning near the village of Clayton, not far from Brighton. I’d passed by this area in the car on a cold Saturday morning back in January but didn’t have time to stop. As the forecast was for more of the …
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I apologise in advance for the brevity of some sections of this post and promise to explain at a later date! Right now however, I have to rush a little to get this written and posted! Saturday saw the February meeting of the Brighton Painting Group. The venue was the seafront on Hove lawns – …
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I have in the past shared work-in-progress posts, but usually, it’s when I’ve been purposefully documenting a painting at various different stages, and I usually share the work-in-progress images only when I’ve finished the painting! On this occasion, its not that I’ve been documenting the stages, but more that I just reached a point in …
A few weeks ago I shared the plein air painting that I did with Brighton Painting Group during our visit to Stanmer Park on the outskirts of Brighton: I commented at the time that I thought this was probably my most successful plein air painting to date, and that I had it in mind to …
