It’s all about watercolors
Lack of both time and enthusiasm continue to plague my painting endeavours as we hurtle towards the festive season! I’m still focussing on playing around in my sketchbook, but despite my best intentions I didn’t even manage to finish this little Barcelona sketch: It’s not far from finished – just some figures and cafe furniture […]
Does anyone remember this half imperial sized painting from a few weeks ago? Well. It’s been staring at me for a few weeks now and my feelings towards it have been plummeting with every glance! I felt that the best thing to do with it, prior to throwing it out, would be to turn it
After last week’s somewhat despairing post (for which I apologise profusely!) – I took my own advice and sought refuge in my sketchbook. Here’s a quick A5 sketch, done in my A4 sketchbook. The subject is one that I revisited from a couple of years ago when I was painting a lot of trees in
This is the sketched out scene from Paris that I shared last week, and was so looking forward to painting: Unfortunately, my enthusiasm didn’t translate hi particularly well! Admittedly, this is a poor photo, taken when the paper was still damp and cockled, but even these extenuating circumstances don’t make up for what is a
Apparently the UK has recently been experiencing a meteorological condition called anticyclonic gloom. The result is that for the past fortnight or so, we’ve only had about a tenth of the sunshine we should have had. I think these conditions also blighted our recent trip to Paris, when aside from about half an hour, the
This time last week we were enjoying the wonderful delights of Paris! I had hoped that the weather was going to be that kind of delightful autumnal brightness that would enable me to capture lots of inspiring references. Instead, the weather was unremittingly grey until 30 minutes before our taxi was due to pick us
I’m in Paris for a few days holiday with the family and it reminded me that I’d never shared this! Pictured below are a few complementary copies from French publishers Ginkgo Editeurs of their recent translation of The Main Audience by Karel Polacek – featuring on its cover my watercolour painting! I’m indebted to the
I mentioned in last week’s post that I was about a quarter of a way through a painting that I’d reluctantly had to take a pause on. Well, this is the same painting but with the other three quarters finished, and what feels like my first interior for quite some time! The view is of
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This was quite a quick quarter sheet watercolour painting. The view is from a recent walk in Stanmer Park, just outside Brighton. We’d spent most of our walk in the woods and were making our way back to the car. We couldn’t go any further on the path we were on so had to take
I mentioned last week that I had been working on a painting that I was really pleased with but hadn’t yet received permission to share it! I was delighted then to receive confirmation from one of the top restaurants in Uruguay, La Huella Parador, that I had their approval and permission to share this painting,
