A Family Face – Remembering Auntie with a Portrait A few months ago my Uncle asked if I could paint him a picture of his late wife and I collected some photographs from him for the likeness. None of them really stood out as being ‘just’ Jean though and I worried about it for a…
Helen and Michael – vintage car portrait in gouache and oil pastel Sitting in the recently restored Riley vintage car after it’s very first outing (if not under it’s own steam quite yet!) Sketched in oil pastel and coloured with gouache… An unusual pairing of media, but I like to experiment. * Update 24th October…
Selfie Portrait from Life – Wax Crayon and Watercolour This self portrait sketch had a time limit… loosely though, I can’t be too hard on myself… within an hour. I think I managed it in 40, maybe 45, minutes. Sitting on a cushion on the floor in front of the mirror wasn’t the most comfortable and…
I’m attracted to sailing in a visual sense – I love the shapes that the yachts make out there on the sea, especially a group of them racing like this. But I’ve never sailed myself. I’m a bit uneasy about the angles that those boats get themselves into at times and I feel that I…
Last week the wisteria plant that has been growing up the side and over our back door for many many years without so much as a bud, had eventually decided to flower! We had almost given up on this ever happening – thinking that growing it in a pot had been to blame for the…
Portrait in Progress Today was one of those days when everything less important than painting seemed to take over… I did mean to make my Daily Face a quick sketch, but somehow was lured by the paints. This one’s from a photo of my friend Nem, who lives in Austria, taken the last time she…
