Painting with Charcoal

Hello and welcome to another episode of Diana Lectures about Art, with a special guest, this chamois leather. No, really. It’s got battle honours. I just said in this post on colour that if you are going to paint with

Cambridge Style Week and Design Essentials

I am very pleased to be working with Wendy of Design Essentials to offer original watercolour images during Cambridge Style Week. Wendy will be exhibiting exclusive items from her website, alongside my work, from the 20th to the 24th of

My Work of Late

Recently I have had some very busy days – commissions coming in for Christmas have surprised me. This is my second year as a professional artist, and apparently people liked my work enough last year that they are coming back.

Red Curtain Drapery

This is the white underpainting for what will be a wine-coloured or crimson painting. The idea is that when it looks good in white, I coat it with a crimson glaze and it looks just as good but far deeper.

Red Curtain

This is a thumbnail for a foot-square deep colour piece. The blue on blue image and its companions are popular, and a couple of people who have seen them have encouraged me to work on something deep red. I have

Blooming Huge Blue Glass Still Life: Day 15

Over the past few weeks, I have been painting one particular canvas blue. It has appeared on this blog before, but the slow creeping of the paint over the surface was not particularly interesting. Days 5-14 were mostly ‘painted more

Blooming Huge Blue Glass Still Life: a Smudge

This is a minor piece of repair work. I do not want to put more than one more coat on the background. Ideally, I will put no more on. However, I let a brush stroke feather out too far, and