Beautiful bonnet mushrooms
15 September 2025
🍂 Watercolour Tutorial: Painting Autumn Mushrooms 🍂. It’s mushroom season, and I couldn’t be happier! These delicate fungi are known as beautiful bonnet mushrooms — though honestly, they d...
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an Italian sketching holiday you’ll never forget
15 September 2025
Have you ever dreamed of wandering through medieval villages, sketchbook in hand, capturing stone archways, sunlit vineyards, and mountain views that take your breath away?. Imagine staying in a beaut...
12 autumn themed watercolour tutorials
15 September 2025
Fall watercolour inspiration – new autumn collection on Patreon Autumn is the most inspiring time of year to paint — golden landscapes, colourful trees, glowing reflections, and even magical mushr...
painting a swan in watercolour
8 September 2025
Watercolour tutorial — how to paint a swan and its reflection (step-by-step). A graceful white swan, softly lit and mirrored in still water — this step-by-step watercolour tutorial shows how to pa...
old dinghy in watercolour
27 August 2025
I have such a soft spot for this little old dinghy. I first found it in a photo on Unsplash, and I’ve painted it so many times - changing its mood, colours, and surroundings. This time I kept the bo...
paint a small town in the pyrenees
13 August 2025
Here's a scene from very close to home. So close, in fact, that's our house there at the back - the one with the new roof. Back in spring I sketched this scene, when the meadow was full of pretty, whi...
a lighthouse in watercolour
25 July 2025
I love painting lighthouses, and given the opportunity to combine one with a stormy sky is always extra enjoyable. So mix up your favourite stormy blues and greys and let's paint a little drama! Happy...
shop update
22 July 2025
The summer vibes continue! This time with Californian poppies. These ones are a reminder of summers in New Zealand, where these poppies grow as a riot of colour along our stoney lakeshore. I worked fr...
a vineyard in watercolour
20 July 2025
Painting Summer Vines and an Old Barn in France This super pretty scene is painted from a photo taken by Elysia on our second day sketching on location during last month’s painting holiday in France...