DAILY PAINTING Earlier this year, I went to Sedona to take a class from an artist I have admired for a long time – Carol Marine. It was from reading Carol’s blog that I first learnt about the notion of creating a small daily painting, that’s a small painting every day – not
VESUVIUS PLEIN AIR Spent a lovely weekend on Salt Spring and went out plein air painting three times! Here’s the lowdown on one of those outings. My Dad and I headed for Vesuvius. It was overcast but we were determined to get out and paint. (My Mum was holed up in her
So, I finally completed a pastel begun in Mexico. When Andrea, friend and model, came to visit me in Mexico in February, she offered a life drawing session for a few of us. I was really pleased with what I did but time ran out and so there was no finishing it. The pastel
I know you’ve been waiting with bated breathe. After all my promises of posting an example of where recent explorations have been taking me, today, finally, I’ll take you through the process of just such a pastel. It’s all about risk. Risk….scary stuff. “Risk is a necessary part of painting. You have
The day was pretty much an overcast one but that didn’t stop me and my Mum and Dad from venturing forth into the wilds of Salt Spring to paint en plein air. Okay, a slight exaggeration since we just went a short way up the hill and around the corner to Sharpe Rd. Such
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