A quick post this week but, hopefully, a positive one! After after a few weeks governed by deadlines and things that may be related to my watercolour endeavours but not actually painting, it’s been nice to spend a bit of time painting for painting’s sake! After my exhibition at Danny House I was keen to …
I’m finding it far too hot for watercolour painting, and even too hot to sit here and write about watercolour painting! I’ll try to keep this as light and breezy as possible in the hope it helps to cool things down a bit! Brighton Painting Group August meet up This Saturday will see the next …
Too hot to paint in Watercolour, too hot to even write about painting in watercolour! Read More »
My first tentative foray into portraiture I have tremendous admiration for anyone that even considers tackling portraiture. This admiration rises even further for anyone that tackles portraiture in watercolour! I think it’s partly to do with the pressure of achieving some semblance of likeness. I can’t help but think that portraiture is a most unforgiving …
Hi there and welcome to my new home, ‘John Haywood Watercolours‘. Please do come in and have a look around! I’d love to hear what you think of the new place! My previous website, ‘Brushes with Watercolour’ has now been set to redirect all visitors to my new home here and any new updates and …
welcome to my new home: john haywood watercolours Read More »
The other week I was trimming all the bent edges off my paintings that are left by the Ken Bromley paper stretchers I use. This wasn’t in preparation for mounting them as I haven’t really done any paintings that I’m especially proud of recently. It was more a case of just having a tidy up …
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 …
Hopefully, by the time you read this, I’ll be experiencing a delightful change of scenery somewhere in Kent. I say ‘hopefully’ because soon after last week’s post, I severely put my back out and have been rendered pretty much immobile. Getting a car packed up with a tent that I can barely lift when I’m …
I so enjoyed painting this view last week that I felt it merited another go but this time larger, so this is a half imperial sized painting from a slightly different angle: I was quite pleased with how this turned out. My aim with the different angle was to help maintain the viewer’s focus on …
‘Sunshine on the Southbank II’ watercolour painting Read More »
First up today is the larger half sheet painting based on the smaller study that I shared last week: This is my second half imperial sized painting in recent weeks and it does feel really good to be painting at a larger scale again. I think over the past 18 months or so when I’ve …
Recent events seemed to be conspiring against me having much to show this week! Between a painting that I’m waiting on permission from a copyright holder before I can share, a commission that I’m sworn to secrecy on, and spending a few days holidaying in London – I have precious little to share this week! …
