When I first saw the photo of Mike in his swimming pool, I instantly reacted to it. I love turquoise, I love light on water, and the photo had both in abundance, so it wasn’t surprising that it was something I fully wanted to paint. I loved the way that the guy in the photo […]
Whilst supermarket shopping last week,before heading off to peruse the fresh vegetables I nipped around to the magazine section and picked up a particular magazine. I’m not a massive buyer of magazines unless its arty ones, but knew these were exceptional circumstances. I flicked through the pages and yep, there it was, the article I was looking for. I […]
I love painting sunlight through trees and am always on the look out for source photos to base my paintings on. This painting is of one of my favourite woodlands in Kent and I really wanted to bring in strong colours within the slightly impressionistic style. That meant starting the painting with lots of bright […]
I love it when you start reading a book and within the first paragraph, you just KNOW that it’s going to be a good one. You can tell by the turn of phrase, by the descriptions, by how you get caught up in the characters, by the way the story unfolds. That was the way […]
Yesterday I had to teach someone how to draw something from a photo infront of her onto her canvas before she could start to do the painting. I know that a few people can do the drawing in paint straight onto a canvas and sometimes I have done just that. But knew in this case teaching a novice […]
