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Getting out there is better than not getting out there - and I like the results. The steep hillside in the first one is quite dramatic!

Not a great day painting today. Great turnout, but the weather was "frizzling", which is fog and drizzling. In fact, my mediocre pastel...

Would love your feedback. 🙏

This is a pleinair from few yrs back when l was painting in northern Spain, in a beach in Santander. Oil on oil paper, size 18x24 cm...

Nice one! ♥️

Thanks! It's good to paint with other people because painter's life is quite focused and that way lots of solitude.

We had an Usk meeting on Saturday and I painted with oils on paper. There were about 30 of us. We had Jamaican music right next to us. 🎶...

This is a quick, gestural, ink and watercolour wash sketch, in an 130 gsm, A6 size (approximately 10 cms x 14 cms) sketchbook. I am...

You are right. And it makes me sad to think how many people judges a book by its cover or a picture by the frame (or gallery). What it...

This is a quick, gestural, ink and watercolour wash sketch, in an 130 gsm, A6 size (approximately 14 cms x 10 cms) sketchbook.

This is third quarry I went to paint. I was tempted to try to paint all these spring greens and peculiar color water. Water is such...

At that fair you really COULD judge a book by its cover.

Indeed! When I went to the yearly book fair this year i was surprised. Several booths had old, battered book collections leather or...

You're making work for me! I'm retired, Brian. I can just visualize this: Old man in a rough brown hooded garment slowly scribbling with...

Jeez! You mean I've been wasting my time with trying to sell my paintings and should have gone into the one-off illustrated manuscript...