My studio table and floor is disappearing under pieces of paper and chapter five is well under way. Writing and illustrating a book has its own pace and momentum; you have to keep a part of your brain connected to it or it’s hard to pick up the threads again. On the other hand, twelve continue reading »
‘Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass. It’s about learning to dance in the rain’. Many blogs ago I mentioned our friend Ken Roberts who was setting off on a solo round the world cycle ride. We’re still following Ken’s progress on www.acrosscontinents.org and his blogs are becoming more perceptive and fascinating all continue reading »
“A painting”, said a visitor to my studio as he pondered which picture to buy, “is a conversation”. He chose the one, I guess, that spoke to him most eloquently, and I hope the dialogue is still continuing whenever he looks at it. It’s true that the most effective paintings are those which leave something for continue reading »
In August 1485, so the story goes, Henry Tudor sailed over from exile in France and landed at Mill Bay in Pembrokeshire. Gathering support along the way, he then stomped eastwards, beat up Richard III in the Battle of Bosworth and crowned himself Henry VII. The rest, as they say, is history. Now, here’s the question – why continue reading »
More on the watercolour theme this week as I’ve been teaching colour theory. It may not sound that exciting, but I’m easily pleased and love the way that you can take three bright primary colours and make a colour wheel (or in this case, colour splodge…..) and then the most clever continue reading »