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Beyond The Ruins, Watercolour on paper now available as a fine art print. The route here lies on a line from Colne and Lancashire in one direction and Haworth and the Bronte Moors in another. It was a freezing cold day, but a sunny one, and I was out looking for subject material to paint and exploring the ruins of Sunny Bank. One of my favourite places is out in the hills above Hebden Bridge, a market town set deep in the Calder Valley of West Yorkshire. Hebden Bridge is a ha

Welcome to the world of painting fatigue - a blog acknowledging tiredness through creativity.

Seven great tips for painting from photographs.

In this blog post I share tips, encouragement and personal experience for navigating your way towards forming your own painting style.

Do one thing to improve your values in your paintings

Three important considerations for pushing your watercolours to another level.

Orange, Pisa. Acrylic on paper 19 x 28cm approx In this #painting I wanted to pull the #design together through the use of strong connected #colour. The car and background building were already similar in hue, so I didn't have much to do in terms of alteration, but it's a good example of being switched on for #composition when out and about. We were actually dragging large suitcases across the rattling streets of #Pisa, when I noticed the colour of the car echoing the colour

If you’re new to painting or maybe you don’t paint at all but love #art, you might be intrigued to know how artists create their work. If you already paint you will no doubt be eager to read on and maybe pick up a few tips. "Often my subjects are captured from places and angles that you wouldn’t be able to erect an easel". What Makes A Painting? Composition is the arrangement of shapes and elements that form a harmonious assembly. It begins with shapes but there is far mor