Only four weeks to go
The warm glow of my Barcelona vacation is fast being replaced by a cold chill of impending doom! My Open House exhibition at 2 Knoyle
April 26, 2017 No Comments
My weekly watercolour blog
Barcelona and back
Since last week’s post about sketching practice, ahead of my Easter vacation, I’ve been to Barcelona but have only just returned, so this will be a mercifully
April 18, 2017 2 Comments
Sketching practice
Ahead of a little holiday in Barcelona, and thinking about how I’ll make the most of this for my painting in between family time and
April 10, 2017 4 Comments
Letting the bee out of the bag
I’ve been bottling this up for almost a year now but I can finally let the bee out of the bag and tell all! I’m
April 6, 2017 7 Comments
Closing the gap
I recently treated myself to a couple of new brushes. I’ve tried out a fair few makes and types of brushes in my quest for
March 29, 2017 10 Comments
Shades of Grey
Following on from last week’s experiments with new colour mixes for greys and siennas, I was keen to do some more practicing to help build
March 20, 2017 4 Comments
Overcast in St Ives
Toward the end of last week I was catching up on some blogs that I’ve missed of late and came across a new post from
March 13, 2017 15 Comments
Short and Sweet
In fact, at its most sweetly succinct, this post could just read: I did a painting this week – and I was really pleased with
March 8, 2017 8 Comments
Town and Country
I left last week’s post broadly satisfied with my sketch of a Notre-Dame side street, although slightly bemoaning that I didn’t think that the sky
March 1, 2017 2 Comments
There’s nothing like…
..having visitors come around to panic me into a bit of tidying up and housekeeping! And so it is I’d like to welcome my regular
February 22, 2017 27 Comments
Café ‘Aux Tours de Notre Dame’
I had to look this cafe up on google maps’ street view to find out its name as despite taking a lot of photographs here, I
February 15, 2017 13 Comments
If I had a boat…
Before I get onto anything boat related, I first feel beholden to begin where I left off last week, with my trials and travails of
February 8, 2017 100 Comments