Adding Colour Part 3

This is a bit of a ramble about my watercolour habits. First of all, let me blame James Knight and all the other people who encouraged me along the way. Fools, do you know what you have done? I use

Painting with Heat

This is not about wax encaustic, glass fusing, or wood burning. Rather, it is about the heat of any particular element. Around the colour wheel, there are cooler and warmer colours. This may not be immediately apparent, and it is

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

Adding Colour Part 2

This is the technical part; buy a colour wheel and trust it. The rest of the post follows below. There are a couple of reasons to add colour to an image. One is to make it seem more like the

Adding Colour Part 1

I was asked recently on Twitter* by a new artist about getting into colour. There were a couple of questions that went with it. What is my favourite Acrylic Brand, and my thoughts on Water-Soluble Oils. Other than finding out

Invitations Sent

Today I gave out and sent the first set of physical invitations to my show. Tomorrow, I send a few more. All of them are based on watercolours; a few, to clients or people who have supported me well, are

News from the Studio

The big news that I have is the Eat Cambridge festival, now running towards its conclusion; I was fortunate enough to paint some of the illustrations for the brochure, including the main picture on the back. The pdf is available