6 July 2023
This month on Patreon is all about painting mountains. The big snowy kind! For our first lesson we take a trip to near my home in New Zealand, and paint our highest peak - Aoraki / Mt Cook. In this sc...
26 June 2023
On July 1st my Patreon turns one! Whoop whoop! To celebrate we're having a sketch party - on Zoom of course. When : 01 July 2023, 7pm (Central European Time) We'll have an hour of painting together, m...
15 June 2023
The alpine flowers in the Pyrenees are stunning at the moment and everyday I see something new. But the other day we had a real treat - a field of Pheasant Eye Narcissus. I'd never seen white daffodil...
13 June 2023
It’s hard to believe that our wonderful 10 days at Perigord Retreats was a month ago already. I guess it’s taken me that long to absorb the whole experience and take it all in! I can honestly say ...
8 June 2023
Let's paint worn, old wood and rusty iron. We'll start with a few short exercises and then put it together in a painting of a cute, little barn. I'll show you how to create the feeling of something ha...
1 June 2023
I've just returned from southern France. On one of our plein air painting excursions, my students and I visited a beautiful water garden. It was so peaceful and so beautiful - lots of different colour...
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 ...
4 May 2023
I couldn't leave Chulilla in Valencia, Spain, without painting a view of the beautiful canyon. One evening, walking out from climbing in the canyon, I took this photo of the lovely evening light catch...
27 April 2023
Let's walk into the town of Chulilla, to one of the little streets leading up to the church. Here the focus is on the play of light and shadow on the pretty white houses. This is our third lesson in C...