Enjoying the weather? Maybe you’ve been on a walk? Maps are fascinating, aren’t they? This week I’ve been playing – actually it’s this month. This particular painting was started before Bucks Open Studios in June. It started with a trip to the Victoria and Albert Museum and a fascination with some old maps of London. […]
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Painting grey without grey paint is a problem. People often ask my why I use such bright colours. It’s quite simple really. When I first started creating these pictures I had 8 colours. Magenta, Process cyan, yellow, deep purple, black, white, orange and green. I use the paints neat and rely on them mixing on
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Finally the H van painting I promised you is here. It feels like I’ve been working on this one forever!I started it on the first Sunday of Bucks Open Studios all those weeks ago. Here’s where it began, with the squaring up. (Tracedown paper is so much quicker) If you look very carefully, you can
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Back to Manchester painting the Hollings building. The Hollings building or Toast rack is a well known landmark and used to be part of the university. It’s a hard building to photograph as the angles I preferred were on the northern side, which meant they were dark. One of the reasons I love photo editing
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Plein Air Sketching #2 We’re already a week into Bucks open Studios and it’s been busy. On the first day I was at Green Dragon and decided to do some Plein Air Sketching outside our venue. The weather was perfect, a bit dull but warm with the sun making the odd appearance. This is the
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Coming around to a Big Ben Painting took me a while. Almost as soon as I started the London paintings, people have asked me about Big Ben. I’ve been shying away from it. Back in April I was running a workshop and one of the students had brought in some gold leaf (amongst other things)
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