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Colourful Watercolour Designs for Frog’s Bucket List Greeting Cards
I’ve been working on some colourful watercolour designs over the last couple of weeks. I decided that I would like to produce a range of Frog’s Bucket List greeting cards using some of my existing illustrations. However, to make the greeting cards extra special, I...
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La Grenouillère by Renoir and a Watercolour Study
I keep looking at Renoir’s painting La Grenouillère. It gives me holiday vibes. Maybe it’s just the few glimpses of sun we’ve had here in the UK this March – the promise of summer to come. I’ve decided to try something a bit different with this painting study. For a...
Watercolour Sketching – A Saturday of Colourful Sketches
I thought it would be fun to do a bit of watercolour sketching. Because sometimes it’s difficult to know what to paint. So instead of embarking on some ambitious art project, I thought I would keep it simple. I would illustrate a recent day in my life. Therefore,...
Gel Plate Printing and Mixed Media Experiments
There comes a time in life when one must purchase a gel plate. For me, that time has come. I have also been experimenting with some mixed media techniques – inspired by a book I was given for Christmas. Read on to learn about my first attempts at gel plate printing,...
Christmas Art in a Variety of Mediums: Mixed Media, Watercolour & Acrylics
It’s always nice to find time to create some Christmas art over the festive period. I’ve not actually had time for much art while I’ve been concentrating on getting my Frog’s Bucket List book published and so have been yearning to paint something for a while now. I...
Frog’s Bucket List ‘Christmas Fun’ – Book Available Now!
This month, it’s all been about my Frog’s Bucket List series. Some of you may remember from my July blog (The York Sketches – Illustrations of my Mini Culture Trip to York) that I mentioned I was working on an exciting froggy project. Well, the time has come to reveal...
Van Gogh: The Immersive Experience at York St Mary’s
Today I'll be reminiscing on my visit to 'Van Gogh: The Immersive Experience' which was hosted in St Mary's Church, York. This follows on from two previous posts about my York visit earlier this year – firstly, my York Sketches post and secondly, my Monet in York...
Monet’s Water-Lily Pond and a Painting Inspired by Monet
A couple of months ago I was lucky enough to see one of Claude Monet’s water lily paintings, The Water-Lily Pond (1899), at the York Art Gallery. I wanted to share my experience and how it has inspired one of my own paintings. This blog follows on from my York blog:...
Mindfulness Art Inspired by my Garden
The tentative summer weather here in the UK has allowed me to experiment with creating some outdoor mindfulness art. I thought I would share a few pages from a sketchbook I’ve been scribbling around in this summer. This is me trying to tap into my creative inner...
The York Sketches – Illustrations of my Mini Culture Trip to York
I recently found myself exploring the artier hideouts of the city of York which is how these York sketches have come to exist. I was keen to capture my arty mini break in an appropriate format and so decided to document my travels in a visual art journal which I will...
Air Plant Paintings because my Tillandsia Ionantha Bloomed
I have created some air plant paintings recently, so if you’re looking for some air plant inspired art then you’ve come to the right place. After three years and eight months of nurture, something wonderful happened – my Tillandsia decided to bloom and produce...
Tulip Paintings – Impressionism, Fauvism, Cubism and Ruthism
In this blog I use a small but recent garden event to inspire a series of tulip paintings. I thought it would be interesting to study three different art movements in the process. Impressionism, Fauvism and Cubism – and to compare the results to my own style. I am...
Two Sisters by Impressionist Painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) was a French painter, and a key figure in the development of Impressionism. He is known for his portrait paintings – particularly females, however he also painted landscapes, and still lifes. One of his most famous paintings is “Two...