

WORKSHOP, SUNDAY 23RD MARCH 2025. Landscape: Structures and Composition.
In this workshop we're going to look at the structures in a landscape, particularly foreground reference. Above are three examples of...


WORKSHOP, SUNDAY 16TH FEBRURY 2025 - Watercolour technique and process.
We'll be using large fragments of magazine image to practice our watercolour technique. The magazine scraps become the colours, tones and...


WORKSHOP, SUNDAY 26TH JANUARY 2025 - Working in small sketch books.
Sketching in small sketch books, workshop, Pimperne, Sunday 26th January, 10am – 4pm. You’ll need a large variety of media –...


Hong Kong - home already!
It's been a busy week mostly taking Felicity to all her classes - including nursery school, Montessori, swimming, football, coding and...


Spending my birthday (now pensionable age!) with these ones.
Pouring with rain in Hong Kong but still warm enough to wear sandals.


Daniel Smiths
I've mostly been sketching with my Daniel Smith paints. I've realised I need at last two weeks here! Today we're off to the Talisker...


Scottish Trip!
Two days getting here (Skye) one night in Penrith and the second in Cluanie, here are pictures of sunrise and moon-set in Cluanie, a...


Results of our Sunday Workshop today...
Keeping it focused, keeping information to a minimum, holding onto the horizon line to anchor the painting...using line initially to help...


SUNDAY WORKSHOP, 13th October, Watercolour Layers.
In this workshop we're working with the idea that watercolour is a medium of shape rather than line and that we build up tones in layers....


LESSON PLANS SPRING TERM 2024 (1st half). Lesson 2: Watercolour from the charcoal drawings.
In this lesson I'm asking my students to refer to the charcoal drawings they made in the last lesson to work through a watercolour in...