

SUNDAY WORKSHOP November 10th Landscape - drawing into painting.
I'm almost home from my amazing road trip! Here is the outline plan of the workshop day below. This workshop day is about the working...


A few more!
Storm Ashley was impressive and luckily mostly blew at night. The weather has been fantastically changeable! Driving horizontal rain,...


Disaster! I think I've deleted all my recent posts! So I'll do a 'last of Japan and first of Hong Kong' and we'll start again from there!!
We travelled south from Osaka on the bullet train at a speed of 200mph to an art island called Naoshima where we stayed in a very typical...


A lovely busy workshop with fantastic results - landscape with a dynamic foreground reference.
I asked my students to choose a landscape image from which to make an initially simple structured drawing. Then they cut out large tree...


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...
