10 November 2022
In this new skills lesson on Patreon we paint a distant conifer forest and a distant orchard. Then we put those skills together in a little autumn scene. This lesson is a compliment to the "Mixing gre...
20 September 2022
Last month when I asked my patrons for feedback, I had an overwhelming request for seascapes :-) And sooooo ... next months lessons are going to all be about the sea! To start you off is this skills l...
16 September 2022
In July Harrison at Perigord Retreats filmed me painting their beautiful lavender field. So much fun to be painting outside in lovely morning light and have someone else be thinking about all the tech...
1 July 2022
I'm on Patreon! For a small subscription per month you can join me there. You'll have access to real time videos and other tutorials about how I paint in watercolour and my drawing techniques. Once yo...
14 April 2022
We're super excited to announce the launch of our new Android app for artists - Real Sketch. Real Sketch provides 6 drawing tools for professional artists and students... 1. TRACING (Free) Use the tra...
29 March 2022
What a wonderful 3 weeks painting my favourite subject and sharing it with 16 hardworking folks from around the globe. Week one we covered storytelling in our paintings and then we painted the mid-dis...
24 January 2022
Every good watercolour painting of an urban scene starts with a good drawing. In most art books you'll find a whole section explaining the theory of linear perspective, but these 'rules' can be confus...
17 January 2022
Last weekend I had 20 wonderful people from all over the world join me in painting New Zealand's highest and most iconic mountain - Aoraki / Mt Cook. We painted it from one of most gorgeous vistas wit...
9 January 2022
It's been ages since I did a step by step painting. So here's a little postcard with a view of Colin Todd Hut in Mount Aspiring National Park, New Zealand. I worked from a photo I took way back in Jan...