This medley of long and short, fat and thin, dry brush, fast and slow strokes, are necessary to the success of your painting…
Are you still into painting? I thought you gave that up and got a real job…
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Fantastic video about Light.
Moby Dick, and The Wizard of OZ, and Aldous Huxley’s experiments with mescaline
I get distracted easily and one of those distractions is Redbubble. Another distraction is, “let’s make myself a cup of tea and check my emails”.
Bear in mind when you’re painting a landscape that whichever blue you have selected as the base colour for your sky should be used for mixing the majority of your greens.
Scholarship to Tangka Art Centre for a young person in Shangri-La in China. Shangri-La is near to the Tibetan border and was renamed by the Chinese government, previously known as Zhongdian.
Soon we left the paved highway and turned off on to the rutted dirt road, the car labouring over the ridges and sinking into the many holes, splashing muddy water as high as the windows…

“Fiscal Shrike” – watercolour on Bockingford 300gsm – Maree©
The Fiscal Shrikes in my garden provide me with hours of pleasure, watching and sketching them as they either sit…
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A hobbyist can afford fine art,
a fine artist can’t afford a hobby…..
Ocean waves;…water textures II… got a feature!…
A collection of quotes from Vincent van Gogh on the challenges of painting trees.
”It had struck me how firmly the saplings were rooted in the ground – I started on them with the brush, but bec…