mushroom season
24 October 2024
It's that time of year when our forest walks take forever as I have to stop at every mushroom not matter how small. There's so many different ones this year because we've had a very wet autumn and, al...
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a bumblebee
22 August 2024
A super, super cute fluffy bumblebee. What's not to love?! The focus here is on the bee itself, with all the other elements in the scene soft and blurry. We have fun with painting the bright colours a...
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...
painting bougainvillea framing a Greek chapel
8 August 2024
When I first saw the reference photo for this lesson, my immediate thought wasn’t architecture or accuracy — it was simply how much fun it would be to paint lots and lots (and lots) of flowers. Th...
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!
summer lighthouse - free watercolour tutorial
1 July 2024
It's the second birthday of my Patreon! So I thought it would be nice to start this month with a bonus lesson and you know how much I love to paint lighthouses. This painting has a lovely contrast of ...
red poppies in watercolour
24 May 2024
All along the roadsides at the moment are so many spring wild flowers. Every year, it's the red poppies that especially bring joy. So the other day I stopped and took a number of photos. I particularl...
frangipanis in watercolour
9 April 2024
There's something so incredibly exotic about frangipanis. Maybe it's because they conjure up images of Hawaii and garlands of tropical flowers. But then there's also how fragile and pure they look, an...
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 ...