watercolour whale
27 July 2024
Who else has seeing whales up close on their bucket list? I'm sure it's not just me :-) In this lesson we're going to paint a lovely humpback whale tail and you can choose all your favourite blues and...
watercolour Clear tags
painting holiday in portugal - september 2025
26 July 2024
My retreat in France for next year is now fully booked, so now I'm excited to announce a new painting holiday in Portugal. 5 wonderful days in the charming Monsaraz region. The village of Monsaraz is ...
painting holiday in france : june 2025
20 July 2024
Just a quick update on my painting holiday in France for 2025 - we have just one room left! In June 2025 I'm planning to go back to wonderful Perigord Retreats for the 4th time, to guide another small...
summer meadow
13 July 2024
Right now seems to be yellow season around our place - with buttercups, cowslips, monk's cushion gorse and trefoils in abundance. I've had my eye on this field of St John's Wort for a few days now, an...
painting vibrant watercolours : 9 tips for you
6 July 2024
I’m often asked if there are any tricks to painting vibrant watercolours. I think some people might just be asking how to paint bright, saturated paintings, but vibrancy is about far more than that....
summer lighthouse - free watercolour tutorial
1 July 2024
It's the second birthday of my Patreon! So I thought it would be nice to start this month with a bonus lesson and you know how much I love to paint lighthouses. This painting has a lovely contrast of ...
our french retreat - june 2024
16 June 2024
June means my annual trip to southern France to guide a painting holiday. 10 days where I share my love of painting outdoors with a small group of people giving them the skills to capture their memori...
lonely cottage
13 June 2024
I find these types of reference photos very intriguing. They may look bland and boring to other people, but to me they have so much potential - you can experiment with changing the colours of the elem...
red poppies in watercolour
24 May 2024
All along the roadsides at the moment are so many spring wild flowers. Every year, it's the red poppies that especially bring joy. So the other day I stopped and took a number of photos. I particularl...