delicate arch
1 February 2024
In 2011 we visited Utah and Colorado on a climbing holiday. The wonderful red rock formations, towers, arches and canyons, all set in the desert, were some of the best scenery I had ever seen. Long wi...
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abstract goldfish by negative painting
11 January 2024
Near my house there's an historic lavadero - an very old laundry area and a natural spring. The big, old wash tub is now a beautiful pond under some huge plane trees. Someone put some goldfish in the ...
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...
paint your own watercolour christmas cards
11 December 2023
Season's greetings and happy holidays! I love this time of year when everything looks so festive and so many people are feeling creative. Are you painting cards for Christmas? Here's a list of the 6 t...
autumn silver birches
16 November 2023
I couldn't let the year finish without an autumn scene :-) So here are some very pretty silver birches we spotted on a hike the other day. They just glow against the darker mountain behind! While the ...
snowy christmas robin
9 November 2023
I'm going to say it! Christmas is coming!! So let's get a bit of head start by painting a cute, little, fluffy robin in the snow. You can scan your finished painting and turn it into a Christmas card ...
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...
paint little boats in pen and watercolour
12 October 2023
For the last few years it's been a tradition for us to travel to the north coast of Spain for a little seaside holiday in September. Like migrating birds, we seem to be drawn (excuse the pun!) to the ...
how correct tonal values can improve your paintings
11 September 2023
Do you find that sometimes your paintings look a bit flat? That they lack sense of depth? That your buildings don't look truly 3-dimesional? Or that your painting lacks vibrancy? Perhaps you really li...