Today I decided that enough was enough, I have spent enough time on the web creating and positioning so it’s time to get back to my first love for a while, watercolour painting. It’s a while since I created any work of note on any scale so I think it’s time I did. Why the [...]
View PostWhat do you do when the ‘block’ comes? I read a book a long time ago, the name of the book escapes me, but in it was an American poet who was explaining to a group of students that when he gets a ‘block’ and can’t think of anything to write about he returns to [...]
View PostTuition is one of the aspects of an artist’s life that can do one of two things: They take to it like a duck to water. Avoid it like the plague as it means you have to meet and interact with people. Fortunately I love meeting people and sharing my love of painting and especially [...]
View PostRowland Hilder always used to say “Paint a sky a day”. That was one of the things I always tried to do when I had the gallery and living in the beautiful harbour town of Whitehaven it wasn’t that difficult. I could wander out on to the harbour and at anytime of day the sky would [...]
View PostI have a range of sable wash brushes that I use for my watercolour painting and on some of them I have suffered a little hair loss, a bit like me, but on others next to nothing. I was wondering if any of you have had the same problems and if so with which make [...]
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