Progress to date on the 'Amarylis' picture, I'm hopefully on the home straight at last.Whilst in Spain I was working on these lovely strelitzias growing in the gardens at the Finca el Cerillo. The top one is a double, incredible colours. ...
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Spain 2014
Another glorious week in Spain, anything to get away from the horrendous UK weather. We had sun, glorious food with lunch out most days, shopping good company and lots of excellent colouring in! ...
New Work and New Workshop Dates
The dates for studio workshops for the remainder of 2014 are now on the website and have been emailed out, sometimes repeatedly, (apologies if this has happened to you). This luscious amaryllis has flowered in the studio and drawn me back to the drawing board (excuse the pun). I had been suffering from the winter doldrums,all this rain and mud and the light has been so dull. ...
Colour Swatches for my new Mitsubishi pencils
I have finally shaken off a nasty cold/cough and managed to finish some quick colour swatches for the Mitsubishi Uni pencils. There seem to be some useful colours, in particular some interesting greys and a few good natural greens. Unfortunately no deep, dark purples! I'm itching to get started using them but am still working on a graphite drawing over under painting of various pieces of bark. ...
Me and Ollie in the greenhouse
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