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I am a Brand Ambassador for the Portable Painter watercolour palettes, and they have just released a DISCOUNT CODE for anyone wanting to...

I’m learning to not mess with my paintings. What I’m trying to do in a conscious way is to lay down a stroke of paint and then leave it...

There is a classic art book called “Carlson’s Guide to Landscape Painting” by John F Carlson which was written in the middle of the last...

Claude Monet said: “To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at. When you go out to paint, try to forget what objects...

I’m in the middle of writing a watercolour course for Artefacto.school online which I’m really enjoying. I’m also painting some larger...

How neutral colours make better paintings We don’t live in a high colour intensity world… so why paint it that way? I am sure you are...

There are hundreds of mountains higher than the Matterhorn; there are hundreds that are harder to climb. But there is none, anywhere in...

Here is a recent painting I did of a peak near Mont Blanc, along with the original photo. As you can see I made some changes. What drew...

I suspect that you will have used a viewfinder of some kind or another to help you to choose your view and isolate your subject. Perhaps...

How to expand your colour range by using less colours! If you have followed this blog for a while you will know that I am constantly...

How to create colour harmony by using a “mother color” in all mixes. What is colour harmony? Some paintings thrive on a heady mix of...

It is so easy to paint a boring picture! I’m sure we all have failed paintings tucked away somewhere that just didn’t work out right....

Traditionally the end of one year and the beginning of the next is a time for looking back, reminiscing, mulling over what you did, saw...