Today is the first day of Wimbledon, so I decided to honour that and paint a picture of Andy Murray.  The medium was acrylic paints: I’m very pleased with that.  Will said he thought it was my best work yet :-) This was what I was working from (the front cover of the Radio Times).  […]

This week was acrylics.  Although I’d done this before Will recommended doing the colour mixing exercises. I’m not going to bother reproducing them here, but I was pretty pleased with my grey (made from red, blue and yellow).  It’s actually really hard to make the complete absence of colour from three primary colours! Then in […]

This week was watercolours.  I’ve done Will’s class before, so I skipped the watercolour exercises and went straight onto a ‘wet on wet’ portrait (over a charcoal sketch): Not perfect, but so much better than my last attempt of this technique! This was what I was working from: I still had a few minutes left […]

Back to pastels this week – possibly my favourite medium. This one falls into the camp of ‘Wow – that’s good – who’s it supposed to be?  Oh.  Really?’ Yup, it seems I’m good at drawing, just not at drawing what it’s supposed to look like! Here’s this week’s piece: Not bad, huh?  But who […]

I had to be a bit secretive about this week’s piece, and delay blogging about it, as it was to be a present for my mum’s 75th birthday. My aim was to do a pencil sketch of my nephew Thomas based on this photo I took last year (aged 9): After the 2 hour class […]