Opening weekend at Starling Studios
The opening weekend of Starling Studios exhibition as part of Brighton’s annual Artists Open Houses.
The opening weekend of Starling Studios exhibition as part of Brighton’s annual Artists Open Houses.
A summary of how I planned the hang for my temporary exhibition at Starling Studios along with some tips and techniques to make it as quick and easy as possible.
You may recall this watercolour painting of London’s Picadilly Circus from a few weeks ago: Well, I so enjoyed painting this, and how it turned out, that I thought I’d do another painting based on a similar view. I’d been fortunate to happen across this view at just the right time of day to capture …
My Latest Picadilly Circus watercolour painting, this time by bike! Read More »
A watercolour painting of an everyday Barcelona street scene.
I’m sure many of you will identify with the title of this post! Barcelona Barcelona didn’t disappoint and although we only left recently, we’re already hankering for another visit! I won’t bore you with details of the trip as there were just too many highlights (even if most of them related to food rather than …
Hola! I’m afraid this will be an intentionally brief post as, after much trepidation over flight cancellations etc – we did actually make it to Barcelona! I can’t begin to tell you how good it feels to be somewhere different! My eyes feel like they’re desperately trying to drink in everything I can see in …
The past week has been another frustrating one on the painting front. As sometimes happens, other things in life have to take precedence. On this occasion there were a few of those tiresome and troublesome necessities that needed attending to. The good news is that I have successfully sorted a few of these things out …
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 …
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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 …
Here’s the painting that I shared last week that I submitted for a critique from Paul Talbot Greaves for my ‘Using greens in watercolour’ course. This was the third of my attempts at this scene and I thought it might be helpful for others to get a flavour of the type of feedback and comments …