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 ...
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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...
painting watercolour landscapes with depth
25 October 2023
Upcoming Zoom course! How do you paint beautiful, vibrant, watercolour landscapes with a wonderful sense of depth? When you paint a landscape with depth you draw a viewer right into your scene. You ca...
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...
free watercolour tutorial - a little ermita
18 August 2023
The Ermita de San Anton is a lovely, historic building on one of our favourite walks. I've sketched it many times before when I'm walking past, but this is the first time that I've done a full paintin...
announcing the launch of Renee’s Studio
16 August 2023
We’re super excited to announce the launch of Renee’s Studio - my own iOS app for all my watercolour tutorials. Perfect for your iPad or iPhone, there are over 50 tutorials there already and I’m...
a little norwegian boathouse
10 August 2023
Such a wonderfully Norwegian type scene - the rainy sky, the lush green grass and the little yellow boathouse with it's tidy white flashings. It's just how I remember it being along many of the fjords...
painting a mountain climber
27 July 2023
We're finishing our month of big, snowy mountains with this painting from Fiordland in New Zealand. It's from a photo I took of my husband back in 2010. This is on one of our many mountaineering trips...