I feel like I’ve increasingly frequently been receiving drenchings from some pretty impressive autumnal downpours of late. These merciless soakings have put me in mind of this painting, which I made ten years ago, in 2015. The painting, made in oils on canvas board and measuring around 40 x 50 cm, was based on a…
Category: Oils
Van Gogh in a Day
A simple, easy-to-follow guide to (vaguely) re-creating one of Van Gogh’s self portraits. I made this painting about 10 years ago to demonstrate to some workshop students an approximation of Van Gogh’s working method. I made my painting before the workshop, photographing it at each stage, then supplying students with printed, illustrated step-by-step guides for…
Happy Meal Paddington
This painting was made as a live demonstration piece for my art class in Hoylake earlier today. It was painted in water-mixable oils on A4 Winsor & Newton canvas-textured oil paper. It took me something like an hour to paint.I don’t like the colour of the shadow in the background, but there isn’t always time…
A View of Liverpool
This landscape painting, which was made in oils on canvas over 2010 and 2011, depicts the Liverpool cityscape from the viewpoint of the Anglican Cathedral. It is the result of a one-time visit to the top of the cathedral tower, braving my fear of heights for long enough to obtain enough sufficient photographs to produce…
It’s One Way to Paint
Held at the Community Centre in Hoylake, Wirral, the majority of my weekly painting classes commence with a brief demonstration by myself. New students often have a tendency to approach the creation of artwork as though ‘painting by numbers’ i.e. ‘draw it out’ then ‘colour it in’. My demos are not intended to be prescriptive;…
Drawing Upon Life 