paint a zebra in watercolour
24 August 2023
By the time you watch this video I will be in South Africa visiting my parents and we'll be in the Kruger National Park, hopefully seeing zebras in the flesh. Of course I'll have my sketchbook with me...
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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...
aoraki / mt cook at sunset
14 July 2023
We're back to New Zealand's highest peak this week. This time for one of New Zealand's most iconic and famous views - Aoraki / Mt Cook with Lake Pukaki in the foreground. And it's a sunset too - littl...
painting aoraki / mt cook in watercolour
6 July 2023
This month on Patreon is all about painting mountains. The big snowy kind! For our first lesson we take a trip to near my home in New Zealand, and paint our highest peak - Aoraki / Mt Cook. In this sc...
sketch party
26 June 2023
On July 1st my Patreon turns one! Whoop whoop! To celebrate we're having a sketch party - on Zoom of course. When : 01 July 2023, 7pm (Central European Time) We'll have an hour of painting together, m...
a field of white daffodils
15 June 2023
The alpine flowers in the Pyrenees are stunning at the moment and everyday I see something new. But the other day we had a real treat - a field of Pheasant Eye Narcissus. I'd never seen white daffodil...
old wood and corrugated iron in pen and watercolour
8 June 2023
Let's paint worn, old wood and rusty iron. We'll start with a few short exercises and then put it together in a painting of a cute, little barn. I'll show you how to create the feeling of something ha...
a waterlily pond
1 June 2023
I've just returned from southern France. On one of our plein air painting excursions, my students and I visited a beautiful water garden. It was so peaceful and so beautiful - lots of different colour...