Watercolour freed!

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

REFERENCE PHOTO My photograph was taken on the banks of the flooded Kennet River near Marlborough in Wiltshire. I admired the twisting floodwaters encroaching the banks and enveloping the associated w

REFERENCE PHOTO My photograph was taken on the banks of the flooded Kennet River near Marlborough in Wiltshire. I admired the twisting floodwaters encroaching the banks and enveloping the associated w

Welcome to the final part of my series of three articles about composition. I hope you managed to try out the pencil sketching method of composition that I showed in last month’s article and found it

I mused over this article, wondering how worthwhile it is when there are no steps showing the progress of the paintings. Then I remembered, especially with mixed media, the process is evident in the f

For over 30 years, I have lived in Walberswick – a tiny village on the east coast – in view of Southwold and its working harbour. I have walked, jogged (my kids usually call this shuffling) and sat an