a yellow bicycle
3 October 2024
This week we paint a very cheerful yellow bicycle. One that has been left to end its days in the garden and in the sun. I always find these so charming! The bicycle itself is so pretty, but what reall...
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Autumn in Dublin Bay
12 September 2024
We're continuing with the still water theme and reflections this week and painting a very pretty autumn scene from a bay on Lake Wānaka which is near my home in New Zealand. This is one of my favouri...
rustic buildings series
10 August 2024
On Patreon I just created a Rustic Buildings Series. This group of watercolour tutorials takes you right through from the beginning with skills lessons, then 2 intermediate lessons, an advanced one an...
watercolour whale
27 July 2024
Who else has seeing whales up close on their bucket list? I'm sure it's not just me :-) In this lesson we're going to paint a lovely humpback whale tail and you can choose all your favourite blues and...
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 ...
lavender meadow in watercolour
2 May 2024
In just over a month I'll be heading to France to guide a 10 day retreat and one of the things we hope to paint will be fields of lavender :-) There's something so evocative about painting lavender in...
a rock sculpture on the beach
7 March 2024
Join me on my favourite beach on the north coast of Spain. We visit every September and part of the tradition is that David builds these huge rock sculptures and I sketch them. Now you can paint one w...
snowy landscape in watercolour
7 January 2024
There was something so evocative in this reference photo when I first saw it years ago. Something that said freezing cold, winter's day. But it was really the clarity of the colours that caught my ima...
sunlit ruin and stormy sky
4 November 2023
A couple of weeks ago I discovered a new abandoned town - Tiermas. This one is an old Roman town and had some beautiful medieval buildings, including a very large church. In the 1950s most of the town...