I’ve not been doing much drawing or painting of late. The one painting on which I have sporadically been working (a relatively large painting of Kew Gardens from a photograph I took a few years ago) seems to be taking an eternity. When paintings take so long they tend to wear down my energy and…
Category: Acrylics
Osteospermum ecklonis, 18 June 2013
This is the first sketch I’ve made in a couple of weeks. It was a trial run for a new French-style easel. The painting depicts a pretty little flower with striking yellow petals. I painted it in Winsor and Newton acrylics on Crawford & Black canvas. I tried to keep this as simple as possible…
Apricot Twist, 4 June 2013
Another beautiful day and another opportunity to spend a little time sketching in the garden. This sketch was painted in acrylics on watercolour paper. It is a little smaller than A5 in size, and took around an hour to complete. I’ve depicted a plant bought recently at Trebah Garden in Cornwall, a beautiful Erysimum ‘Apricot…
Pincushion Daisy, 29 May 2013
I painted this today for the Gardening for Disabled Trust silent auction. The deadline for submissions of artwork is this Saturday, so I’ve left it rather late. I hope it arrives in time. The trust provides grants that help disabled people in the UK to continue gardening. The silent auction offers 200-plus postcard-sized pieces of…
An Orange and a Banana…
By means of a break from drawing daffodils I thought I’d do a bit of fruit today: an orange and a banana. This sketch was painted in acrylics, which (as in a post from a couple of days ago – ‘Daffodil #2’) I had been using to try to finish a difficult portrait. Today’s sketch…
Drawing Upon Life 