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The wharf buildings at High Peak Junction painted outdoors in gouache…


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High Peak Trail at Cromford in watercolour…


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A very different subject for digital painting in Procreate…


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An impression of the Hunstanton coastline at low tide…


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A small gouache study (approx. 13cm x 8cm on beige paper) of a scene captured yesterday…


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Painting outdoors is difficult but it still remains one of my most enjoyable art activities…


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In a recent post I posed a question about painting outdoors with the iPad (22nd June 2025) and this week I decided to give it a go…


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A postcard size watercolour sketch from earlier in the week…


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Tonal watercolour sketch of the Southwell Trail from earlier this year…


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Following on from my previous post is another watercolour from late 2023...


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A watercolour from late 2023 and one that went well...


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A digital painting based on a photograph taken yesterday afternoon on the Southwell Trail looking in the direction of Lockwell Hill.


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A quick watercolour sketch from the Longshaw Estate in the Peak District, with Higger Tor in the background.


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A digital painting using Procreate, one layer, and the quoll brush. The scene is the path across the Hexgreave Estate toward Kirklington…


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Another in the series of digital paintings completed with the Procreate app and the quoll brush…


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I would normally use watercolour or perhaps gouache for outdoor painting, so working in oils at Patchings Art Centre’s NGS painting day was a very different experience.


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A new digital painting of a local scene on the Southwell Trail…


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Watercolour of a Yorkshire Dales scene…


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Continuing a series of digital paintings from photo references taken around Combs Lane…


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Pencil drawing of a bust which I believe to be Renaissance architect, Andrea Palladio…


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