Roses and Reflections

Finally, I have finished Roses and Reflections. I’ve left out several potential posts that say ‘then I went over the top surface and improved it a bit’. I’ve done that everywhere, and I’ve also nudged the copper pot back to

Spotlight On: Sa’adiah Soul Arts

Spotlight on an artist I know in actual physical space, and have met! Sa’adiah Khan is very focused on what she can do with her art, and on helping people with it, far more than I can manage with fine

Still Life – Jug

I painted this over several days, with a long break in between for Christmas commissions and then for other work that came up. I started with an hour-long study in pencil, and measured that up against a photograph to check

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

Angry Reindeer 2012

Following on from last year’s triumphant sales (enough to buy Christmas presents and gin) I will be selling Angry Reindeers once more. If you have a Christmas list of people who understand the quirky, have a spiky sense of humour,

Watercolour Postcards

Recently I have been painting watercolour postcards for general sale, for £3 a card sent through the post. I enjoy creating them, and I am starting to build up a stock that I hope to sell in the Cambridge Art

Sold! Watercolour Notebook

This week I sold my portrait notebook, an unfinished Moleskine of the smallest size. I had restricted it to facial studies and life-drawing sketches, and I had some good feedback along with the sale. From now on I will be