Breathing life into a painting. The tricks in an artist’s arsenal.
Sunset Watercolours
I have a number of painting projects on the go to take me through most of this year, I should imagine. In between commissions and larger personal projects, I like to do these often quick, whimsical pieces. Here’s a couple of recent watercolours done in one sitting a piece. It’s good to exercise the imagination […]
Capturing Light
Please excuse my bad cropping. I take these shots with my phone and lining them up by hand is a bugger. I’ve been studying our dear old Mr. Turner’s work again. Trying to learn how he handled light and paint, particular in watercolour, as that is my medium of choice right now. I’m still on […]
Grumpy Pigeon – Water Media Painting
The pigeon is done. I’m not sure how I feel about it yet as I’ve already spent too many days looking at it. I get like this with all my paintings. Usually an extended break seems to reset my attitude. Painting requires huge amounts of focus. After a while I go a bit paint-blind and […]
Setting the Mood With Light.
I’ve been playing with a new editing tool that allows me to generate these rather magnificent landscapes, sort of. There’s quite a lot of work involved in getting these images to look as they appear here, but, they are otherwise completely computer generated. There’s quite a lot of artistic freedom involved in the composition, and […]
Watercolour, Guache and Ink, 9×12 inches.
Watercolour, Guache and Ink, 9×12 inches.
Watercolour, Guache and Ink, 9×12 inches.
Watercolour – Burano In Detail
I’ve stopped worked on my highly detailed Venice painting with the fruit cart for now because I needed a break from it. Instead I’ve been focussing on doing more impressionistic work, if only to remind myself that there are other ways to paint than just with a tiny brush and rationed breath. It’s been a […]
A Year of Art
I suppose I’ve had a fairly prolific year when it comes to painting. We’re almost at the end of 2019, and despite having six paintings in various stages of completion, I have managed to produce fifteen finished pieces this year. Six watercolours and nine oil paintings, not including the flurry of smaller watercolour sketches I’ve […]
Portrait of Grace – Watercolour #2
This is the second in the series of watercolour paintings that I have embarked upon, with my daughter Grace as a willing subject – bless her. She’s already sent me two more selfies that she wishes me to paint in addition to this collection. And I’m happy to. This one however, was a real challenge. […]
Watercolour – Portrait of Grace
The last time I did a portrait of someone I knew, let alone a member of my family was a very long time ago. I used to sketch self-portraits and portraits of family members when I was a kid and through my teens. In fact, doing portraits was my thing and over the years I […]
Watercolour Sketch – Alimentation Sur La Rue Gabrielle
For the past week and half I’ve been playing around with marker pens and watercolour paints. I’ve doing very quick sketches of photos in marker pen followed by watercolour paint. The idea has been to capture the essence of the scene or the character in question without paying too much attention to detail (famous last […]
Diary of a Person Being Human 