an autumn storm
11 October 2025
Watercolour Tutorial — painting an autumn storm. Autumn often brings dramatic thunderstorms where I live — the other night, we had a spectacular one with lightning flashing several times a second ...
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my surfinias
14 January 2025
I'm thinking about those of you in the southern hemisphere - are your social feeds full of snowy scenes like ours in the northern hemisphere? If so, you're probably hankering after a more summery scen...
watercolour over coloured pencils
17 September 2024
This is one of the 'what if...' experiments I've been doing lately. As an artist I do them all the time. This one is ... what if I do a coloured pencil drawing and then add watercolour on top? You're ...
old ruin near home
20 August 2024
Sketching an old ruin near our home. Listening to the sounds of sawing and hammering from our place. It certainly is not as tranquil as it looks in these photos. But these are happy sounds! We've fina...
hiking to see the mountain irises
23 July 2024
The mountain irises are flowering at the moment and there are hundreds. Definitely worth the hike!
old door
25 January 2024
Who doesn't love watercolour paintings of old doors and windows? They have a charm all their own. And, certainly, a whole series of them hanging together would be really lovely. In this lesson we use ...
advice on painting boats on location
16 October 2023
Painting boats, their reflections and their beautiful surrounding is one of the most romantic themes for watercolourists and a very popular subject. Boat paintings in all media have a very long histor...
free watercolour tutorial - a little ermita
18 August 2023
The Ermita de San Anton is a lovely, historic building on one of our favourite walks. I've sketched it many times before when I'm walking past, but this is the first time that I've done a full paintin...
old abandoned building in alto mijares, spain
25 May 2023
An old, abandoned, stone building in a beautiful peaceful place - you know I'm hardly likely to just walk past that without wanting to sketch it! This one is built alongside an old aqueduct (sadly no ...