Wondrous washes

Awash is a fundamental watercolour technique and so it makes sense to start these twelve articles by delving into their beauty with a look at how they are created and interact with one another to buil

Into the white - negative painting for dramatic brightness This time I am looking at uses of ‘white’ paper in a painting to suggest a light source, exploiting the benefits of light bouncing back from

Into the white - negative painting for dramatic brightness This time I am looking at uses of ‘white’ paper in a painting to suggest a light source, exploiting the benefits of light bouncing back from

I STRUGGLED INTO MY LAYERS, picked up my light sketching kit and off I went up into the hills behind where I live. I wasn’t the first to arrive; halfway up the hill I could already hear the cries of e

Autumn brings a splash of golden warmth, when leaves start transforming from green to rich golds and russet reds. It can be quite daunting to know where to start when interpreting a mass of foliage wh

Westminster Bridge is one of those quintessentially London locations that has been painted many times before, but with this piece, my aim was something different. Here I wanted to capture not the land