After visiting Japan a few years ago I came back with more knowledge of that particular country and have certainly a list of paintings I would love to do featuring various aspects of it. Top of that list is of the cherry blossom trees that are revered as the end of winter and beginning of […]
It took me a while to get pastels, I don’t mean actually to acquire them, I mean get the point of them. They seemed chunkily unweildly compared to the sharp point of a pencil or fine paint brush. But the more I go to art workshops to learn in depth about them, the more I get them as a […]
From first pencil mark to the finished oil painting…….. The oil painting of Roger and Kathy started with a drawing on cartridge paper, working from the photos I’d taken of them. I made adjustments where necessary and when fully happy with it, transferred it across to the box canvas as shown here. The easiest way of […]
I’ve got green finger nails again. And no, its not through gardening, even though it entailed getting my hands on large amounts of bamboo, its through painting and getting intimate with a Samurai. As you do. 🙂 The guy who has commissioned me to do this particular oil painting for him rang earlier to see […]
Cor, where has this week gone? In a blur of work and getting ready for exhibitions this week. The first one was a smaller one, since I had three paintings to hang at Fishers Solicitors in Ashby de la Zouch, meeting the veritable practice manager there and chatting about art whilst knocking holes in her […]
