The Weekender

Dear Mr President please give a Presidential Pardon to Rodney Reed and prevent this miscarriage of Justice. President Donald Trump , you ...

Oil on canvas portrait of Pope Francis. This oil painting of the current Pope was created using oil paints that contain alkyd resin. Size 10...

I find that painting and drawing is relaxing.  I've completed a fair few paintings and drawings since my last flurry of activity on Blog...

Mrs Pauline (Iles) and Mr Roger Bennett [Burke's Landed Gentry, 19th Edition] of Penrhyncoch in the County of Ceredigion; are proud to a...

Painting is one of my de-stressing activities.  At the moment it is very much about using watercolour paints and sometimes colouring p...

Well how cool is this?  A hand painted Christmas card for yours truly from fellow artist Eileen Brautman from the States. Eileen is pr...

So yesterday (after a break of a few weeks while feeling poorly) I managed to make it back to MIND and do some painting.  RbaArt Protograph...

This one was painted on Remembrance Sunday 2016 with the poem also written on the same day.  ArtRba Photograph: Remembrance Poem and waterco...

I'm fortunate enough to now own and enjoy using a significant range of Winsor & Newton Professional Watercolour paints.  But one o...

I don't always get around to doing the things that I should, when I should. This is probably why I've only just settled down to watc...

I'm about three hours in with this piece, including the longed out coffee and chat when I began on Tuesday and the pot of Assam B.O.P. w...

Well, how cool is this!  ArtRba Photograph : blank greetings card with New Zealand Art on front cover All the way from New Zealand courtesy...

All framed and ready to gift. Watercolour on 12 x 16 inch  Arches rough Block using a variety of mark-making techniques.  The frame was of...

This is today's output, well when I say today, I mean finished today after two hours per week for six weeks. It's an image of the Gr...

Winsor & Newton Professional Watercolours on Winsor & Newton Artists' 300gsm acid free A5 size watercolour paper .  Original i...

Well not being part of this years; " Sky Landscape Artist of the Year " (2016) Competition , doesn't stop me whittling up my i...

Well, to link in with the theme of the last post.  Which is something that I haven't done for a while.  It's only fair to mention th...

Landscape Artist of the Year 2016 .  Series 2, Episode 1: at blinking last.  The three paintings chosen in this episode as the 'Heat Fin...

Well, the pack of Winsor & Newton Watercolour Markers have been used for the first time!  Along with a ' Seawhite of Brighton '...

Awe what a lovely surprise when I got back from town and found that these Winsor & Newton Watercolor Markers had arrived today!   Photo...

Buying watercolour paper can, for the uninformed; be a tad confusing. So this little post is my humble attempt to sort of help you out. In v...

Accidentally making the move to trying out Winsor & Newton Watercolour Markers has been a good, albeit frustrating thing.  The good poi...

I've had a stressful few days, so this is the sum total of my artistic dabblings since Tuesday morning.   On the minus side, I feel a t...

Or is that ArtRba in the City? I had a lovely weekend in the City, meeting up with family.  I even managed to get in a painting , which was...

And here is today's output with my new Watercolour  Field Box ! It's on a Langton Prestige 'Fine Grain' COLD watercolour pa...

I've just taken delivery of an Artist Quality watercolour ' Field Box ' from the Art Shop at No.5 Pier Street , Aberystwyth ....

'Drawing is a way of seeing, and (...) painting is an extension of drawing' Weaver, P. ' The Artist ', July 2015, p.43

Well I don't think that's too shabby, a  first attempt with my new Karisma Colouring Pencils .   I sort of hope that you agree, beca...