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live online painting class - venice sunset
17 January 2021
Another super lovely painting session with folks across the globe. This time we visited Venice and painted a beautiful sunset scene in neutral tones. We covered painting with one of my favourite triad...
painting a white flower in watercolour
8 November 2020
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let's talk about : watercolour brushes
27 September 2020
Updated : September 2023 I get a lot of questions about my materials, so this list of my brushes is part of a bigger series of posts where I list all my other watercolour art supplies. Find them under...
new watercolour painting tutorial
10 September 2020
Excited to announce I have a new full length video tutorial. In this one we paint this ruined miner's hut which is in the historic, gold mining settlement of Welshtown near my home. I visited this ske...
new online painting lessons
10 June 2020
I have two new landscape lessons available on my website. Both cover a large number of skills from composition, to colour mixing, to painting wet on wet and wet on dry. You learn how to paint skies, m...
painting an autumn postcard
21 May 2020
Join me in painting a little autumn scene on a postcard. Seal your postcard with a little bit of spray varnish and pop it in the post! A wonderful way to spread some joy in this crazy world. Happy pai...
painting old boats - online watercolour lesson
9 May 2020
In this online lesson we get to paint this very pretty scene. I break it down into small achievable parts - rainy sky, water and reflections and, of course, boats. At the end you'll have a beautiful p...
painting an autumn mushroom
21 April 2020
Follow me as I paint some pretty, red Amanita muscaria mushrooms in my sketchbook. If you have any questions, please pop them in the comments below. And if you do paint a mushroom, I'd love to see the...