Cemlyn Bay, Anglesey, June 2023This June I returned a second time to the north of Anglesey where I first discovered Cemlyn Bay the year before. This time I was a week...
An Oil painters approach to Watercolour and Gouache combinedWatercolour combined with gouache is a painting approach that seems to appeal particularly to oil painters. Turner and Sargent are two of...
Capturing those fast moving Garden Birds I can happily spend hours watching the comings and goings of the small birds visiting the garden whilst trying to draw and capture their...
Plein Air Painting KitI have used a number of easels and pochade boxes over the years, many of them homemade. Each new design became lighter each time and more...
An Oil Painting in Three StagesThe images below show the three main stages in painting a Chaffinch in the spring, this studio piece has been developed from a plein air...