Last nigh,t after having spent too long waiting for our nation to be led, I attacked a canvas with some primary colours. Something to do...

Rummaging again through old work revealed some things from years ago that either need a new approach or they should be re-cycled. The...

The pastel study of the shrivelled leaf has been added to several times. As always the balance has to be right between accuracy and...

Firstly, I have done some more to the experimental re-interpretation of a still life that I was doing in my last blog. I have built up the...

About 2 or 3 years ago I did the following acrylic painting from some photos I took of seed pods on pond irises. Having found some small...

Not the range today. I have spent more time developing one picture than I have recently. Here are three more stages of the painting of...

I found a canvas that I had primed with dark brown a few years ago. So I drew out with red pastel and painted quickly with thin acrylic...

I have done more to the small painting of rubbish from the allotment. I have built it up with red blue and white. Remember this is a...

Firstly, I added a few more touches to the painting in my last blog. I felt that it needed just a bit of “sharpening up” and more tonal...

The image I chose to use is this one photographed last week. I start with that image including the computer generated variations. I like...

The last blog was of photos of sunflowers. I took one of the monochrome images and started a charcoal sketch. A2 size. I worked quickly...

The sunflowers on the allotment are looking good at the moment. Took lots of photos, as I have often in recent years. This evening I...

Some 3 weeks ago I started a detailed HB pencil drawing from a photo of lichen on a twig. I was trying to to work in a steady careful...

Sorry about the gap since the last blog. Other things have cropped up, like getting daughter off to university, and my current “creative”...

I started two small canvases figures a few days ago based on masked figures found on the internet. Having been very unsure as to what I...

My current work is a bit stuck with “Covid masks”. I have been going through my old work and have found two ways partly seen or obscured...

I have other strands I want to develop, but non-art aspects of life are leading the way at the moment. I start however with the tissue...

I start with another quick charcoal study from one of the images taken from TV news. One of the techniques that helps avoid careful...

I continue to think about partly seen faces. They are a source of anxiety. I think this is because so much of our brain (about a third) ...

Following on from the self portrait in charcoal that I posted two days ago, I decided to tackle the same image in colour, in acrylics. I...