This is the small lighthouse at the entrance to Ardrishaig harbour, which is at the eastern end of the Crinan Canal. This was done with a ...

This is a very quick sketch, done at Castle Dounie , which overlooks the Sound of Jura. I didn't have long because my rather impatient...

Here's another painting from my recent holiday. This one is a bit larger, a 1/4 sheet. More practice with grey skies! technorati tags...

I'm just back from my trip to Argyll on the west coast of Scotland. We were staying in a small village called Ardrishaig , which is on ...

I've been away on holiday on Scotland for the past week, hence my lack of posting. Over the next few days I'll post some of the ske...

I haven't done the EDM weekly challenge for a few weeks, partly because I've been busy. Also, I think maybe it's one of those t...

Another attempt at wet and loose lavender. technorati tags: watercolour , lavender

This month's topic on Making a Mark is flowers in art. There are some wonderful links in this post; anyone with even the slightest int...

When the rain drove me inside yesterday, I did a quick sketch of this chandelier inside the spookily now almost deserted old Radcliffe Infir...

Tonight I had the chance to spend about half an hour making a sketch of the fountain at the front of the old Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford....

Time for a return to graphite. I like to use lots of different media -- watercolour, pen and ink, coloured pencil -- but I still find it ha...

Here's another version of the girl that I posted a while back, this time with added pigeons! The vague shapes on the upper right were s...

Yesterday I attended a workshop in botanical illustration at the Harcourt Arboretum (part of Oxford University's Botanical Garden) run b...

Yes, it's another rose! I think tomorrow I'll have to try something different. Like a yellow rose, perhaps. :) Again, this is on ...

It's hard to resist painting roses at the moment, as thy are everywhere! So, here's another version. This style is largely inspire...

I've not been able to post much so far this month, thanks to pressure of real life (boo!). But I hope to put that right with a flurry o...

I had the chance to go out and draw for a hour or so this evening as the sun was going down, and what better way to spend the time than draw...

I'm planning a painting of a young girl feeding pigeons. This is a quick study of the girl. I don't have a lot of time to do much ...

Summer has returned to Oxford this weekend, thank goodness. And with all the rain, we've been having, when the sun comes out everything...

EDM challenge 8 was to draw a watch. I've got a few watches; this one I bought on my recent trip to Switzerland. It didn't seem ri...