I don’t always choose what I paint. Sometimes it’s chosen for me. I suppose I could say no, though. But sometimes it’s fun to try something different, something that pushes the boundaries. Something…..well……S C A R Y! The thing is, that what is scary for me, is usually what isn’t for other artists. I know […]
Whilst I’m starting one painting I am usually semi-consciously thinking of the next one. You may think that’s a bit silly to be half thinking of one painting when I should be fully concentrating on the current one. But there is a reason for it. I find that when I haven’t got a painting in […]
Sometimes the world doesn’t take you to where you’re expecting to go. I went to an art workshop today, to a place I know very well, along with people I know very well. And I expected the day to go the way it normally does. The world has a pattern I am familiar with, and […]
Before I show you all of my many faceted fannies I’ll just tell you about my holiday! I’ve just had a much well deserved week in the South of France and I just fell totally in love with the beautiful colours there. Such purity! Such lovely bright pastel shades. And the Cote d’Azure is so […]
A different model for me this week – a male one, and that means I’ve got to re-think the pose and how I want it to look. And the end result is another drawing that I’m not 100% happy with – it may need a bit more work doing on it and then I’ll be […]
I decided to try a bit of whimsy this week with my life drawing. It was just an idea to see what a pose would look like if it was drawn in the colours of the spectrum, and I’m really pleased with how pretty it is! I decided to do it on black card as […]
I had a real nice time today, painting along-side my artists friends. Although the subject matter was of a vanilla nature, it’s good occasionally to do something totally different from the norm as a contrast, to re-establish the importance of the usual things. I produced a couple of simple, brightly coloured landscapes of trees/fields/sky in […]