I recently joined a Zoom workshop hosted by Roger Dellar and tried something which I had never attempted before, or had even thought of trying before. This was to paint a picture using only 3 ready mixed secondary colours: orange, purple and viridian. Our tutor wanted us to use ready mixed colours to reduce the […]
During the mixed bag of weather which made up summer in the UK, I was lucky enough to enjoy a super break painting plein air along the east coast. For a whole week the sun shone unrelentingly in a sky which was by far the biggest feature of the views laid out before me. A very
Plein air – big skies and boats. Read More »
The wonderful paintings created by Claude Monet have been a great source of inspiration to me in my development as an artist. He is the artist many people first think of when hearing the term “Impressionist”. A man who was fascinated by the effects of light on his subject matter, who strove to capture the
So why did Monet paint so many paintings of waterlilies? Read More »
