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 […]

After a too-long 5 week break, Will’s art class started up again this week. Since this is the start of another term, Will is repeating the syllabus, and I can choose to follow along if I think it would be useful, or do my own thing with the materials provided. I asked Will’s advice, and […]

On Easter Sunday I went to Clevedon with friends.  It felt like the first sunny day of the year, and was warm enough to sit outside to eat our lunch.  Although I did leave my coat, scarf and hat on. Walking along the sea front I saw a gorgeous tree, swept back from years of […]

In the gap between terms of the Paint and Draw art classes with Will Stevens, I got withdrawal symptoms. My friend Dani had posted an image on Facebook of an abstract tree by Louise Mead.  I decided to use it as inspiration and try to paint something similar on my iPad. I used the Procreate […]

Last week of the term :-( So, another week of mistakes, and learning from them! This week was acrylics again, this time doing a full picture.  I messed up the assignment slightly, as I think Will intended for us to practice blending colours in our pictures, but I’d picked a picture to copy that was […]