I started baking during lockdown, like a lot of people! I used to bake cakes for my dad to take to work in his lunch, when I was at school. I guess the cooking bug never it just lay dormant. My Favourite Lemon cake recipe 275g self raising flour 225g caster sugar 225g butter 3Continue reading “The recipe”
Tag Archives: watercolour
Sea swimming pool
I like to experiment with ideas, mediums and genres. When I painted this image I was reading a lot of books about abstract art. I’m trying to decide if it’s successful. What I wanted to produce was an image that cut out details with the brush, and then finding details within the white space. IContinue reading “Sea swimming pool”
Balancing Stones
Another of my favourite artists is Sasha Harding. We prefer a beach with sand, but as Sam found stones also have an entertainment value. In the picture are some clothes that I assume were drying on rocks. We never saw the owners! Sasha Harding is Cornwall based and paints mainly seaside views. Her technique isContinue reading “Balancing Stones”
Splashing Stones
One of my early influences as an artist was a water-colourist called Neil Meacher. Neil painted mainly seascapes with a cubist style. But more importantly he used sketch books to develop his ideas. Neils work is always primary colours and is developed in layer much like the printing processes he studied in his early career.TheContinue reading “Splashing Stones”
Seafood on the sea shore
I’m going back in time to 2018. We eat out a lot on holiday. We are willing to risk the attacks of seagulls to enjoy a roll on sand, maybe I should rephrase! This is Widemouth Beach where we found a hut selling baguettes. I’ve included the original sketchbook image. I can see ways toContinue reading “Seafood on the sea shore”
Sticky Paint
If you follow me on Instagram you will have seen that I have been on a Jake Winkle Watercolour workshop. Jake Winkle’s watercolour workshop was a master class of wet-in-wet technique. A technique that I have been trying very hard to replicate for years. Jake’s secret is to use sticky paint! Painting wet into wetContinue reading “Sticky Paint”
Of Granny knots
It doesn’t mater what sort of cable I have they always ends up in knots. When we went camping recently I laid out the cable carefully from the electric point to the tent. There were no kinks, no coils of cable, just a lovely straight line. As we packed up and I collected the cableContinue reading “Of Granny knots”
Run Forest, run.
Being an idiot is no box of chocolates. How well do you know film quotes? Tom Hanks famous line – ‘Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get’, was changed from the novel. Tom Hanks never visited Space or became a professional wrestler, as written inContinue reading “Run Forest, run.”
Simple figure painting exercise
I have decided to make my 64 million Artist posts and video’s available as tutorials. One of my favourite exercises was creating figures from watercolour splashes. Figure painting can be difficult, and people often make the figures too large and unbelievable. Adding a random element to figures will help your work enormously to look moreContinue reading “Simple figure painting exercise”
Sugar Tax?
The toothbrush doesn’t remove six months of tartar 30 minutes before your dental appointment! We’ve established a very bad routine of eating kit-kats in the evening. This is usually followed by an ice lolly. I think this started in the summer when it was very hot in England. We are not used to a SummerContinue reading “Sugar Tax?”
