I have been working on some ideas for a workshop and demo I shall be doing for Garstang Art group next Friday. The idea is to produce a sunny, summer,  landscape view. The style is as the “mosaic style” I enjoy so much but I have also been working on the foreground of summer flora which I should like to appear random and colourful. pleased with these three pictures which will form the basis of the demo and... Read More »

I saw this cartoon on FaceBook and I think it is just brilliant! Many students in my classes hold the belief that skill in art is somehow something you are born with. It is not! This cartoon sums it up so well, I think I shall take a copy of it and take it to every demo, workshop and class I take in the future! Well done Sarah Anderson and thank you Read More »

Just finished a watercolour of Wirral Golf Club (formerly Wirral Ladies). the picture is taken from a sketch I did just before Christmas when we had the heavy frost and snow. It was a beautiful clear day and I ventured across the closed course to do a 10 minute sketch of the view and some photographs to act as an “aide memoire” of the scene. The tree is a well known hazard on the 18th fairway that has spoiled many a golfer’s final hole! It was a bitterly cold day tho’... Read More »