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July update! 1 Aug 2013 | 05:20 pm
Ah, me. July seems to have gone by without my posting anything. In truth, there's nothing much really to tell. A couple of paintings have been finished, which I'll show you but, frankly, this unacc...
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2013 & 'Souzou: Outsider Art from Japan' 30 Jun 2013 | 08:00 pm
Yesterday saw our (now) traditional trip up to London to see this year's Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy. We've been going for several years now and I usually try to do a blog post about it, i...
My first exhibition (sort of)... 30 Jun 2013 | 02:31 pm
As I mentioned in my previous post, I've submitted three paintings to the annual Surrey Learners' Exhibition. This is for all the students on any of the county's adult education art classes and is he...
Ring out Solstice bells! 21 Jun 2013 | 03:54 pm
Happy middle-of-2013, everyone! It's not very summery here in the UK, is it? We've had a couple of very warm days this week down here in the South, but I had the heating on only last week. I read a...
Jewel Beetle 6 Jun 2013 | 09:16 pm
I've always been fascinated by the amazing variety of insect life on this planet, and the amazing colours that some of them are. Beetles are no exception. Some are absolutely exquisitely beautiful a...
My littlest niece 6 Jun 2013 | 04:16 pm
My brother takes brilliant photographs, and I've used his photos as inspiration for paintings and drawings several times. He recently took some lovely black and white, high contrast photos of his lit...
Portrait of my brother 6 Jun 2013 | 04:02 pm
After the snowy trees, I decided I wanted to have another go at painting a portrait. People are hard to draw and getting a likeness is fiendishly difficult but it can be achieved with practice. I ha...
Winter Trees 6 Jun 2013 | 03:55 pm
The winter of 2009 was a very snowy one and the week before Christmas, it was decided that TLH and I would drive to his native homeland to fetch his parents and bring them back so they could celebrate...
Bluebell Painting 6 Jun 2013 | 03:34 pm
Time for a catch up again. My last flower painting is one of bluebells, that I started on 8 May so getting on for a month or so ago. I found a photo on Flickr that I really liked and thought I'd hav...
Orange Tulip painting 7 May 2013 | 07:28 pm
This is my sixth flower painting and is of an almost neon-bright orange tulip - the light is coming from behind the tulip rather than from one side or the other, which is why the colour is so zingy an...
