"Painting With Pastels"

I have just completed my new book, "Painting with Pastels" & posted it off to Crowood Press.
Hopefully it will go to the printers for publication late July to early August this year!
All very exciting!!

Weekend Workshops Full!

All the places are now filled for the Weekend Workshops to be held at Runswick Bay in July this year.
Please contact me if you would like to be added to this years waiting list, or our Data base for future Workshops.

2010 Summer Weekend Workshops

The Weekend Workshops on the 3rd/4th and 10th/11th July are now full, but there are still 4 places left on the weekend of the 17th & 18th July.
If you would like to join us, or would like to be added to the waiting list should a place become available, please contact me.
We're really looking forward to going back to Runswick Bay again this year - hope to see you there!

Happy New Year!!!

Happy New Year Everyone!

Let's Help Make It A good One!

Happy Christmas!!!!

Wishing you all a very happy & healthy Christmas!!

Remember...................

"Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children they are all 30 feet tall"...... Larry Wilde

Christmas 'Open Weekends' at Sundial Studio

I will be opening my Home Studio on the weekends of the 5th & 6th and 12th & 13th Decmber - 10.30am to 4pm

On show & for sale will be a wide variety of Original Paintings in Oils, Watercolours & Pastels, together with a selection of Limited Edition Prints, Greetings Cards & copies of my book - "Painting Boats & Coastal Scenery"

Please call if you're in the area

Happy Christmas!!

Barwick Art Club 25th November 2009

Many thanks for the warm welcome from all those who attended my Watercolour demonstration last night.

Here is the unfinished painting:


The following steps were taken to complete the painting:

More textural 'marks' were made to the distant beach above the boats.

Additional detailing to the mooring ropes, accross the beach.

Final details added to the boats, such as numbering & the masts.

The finished painting - "High & dry / Staithes"

Please contact me with any questions.

Children In Need Friday 20th November 2009

How will you wear yours?????

Follow this link to 'Pudseyfy' yourself or anyone else & help raise money for Children In Need. Once you've created your new look, just post to your profile on Facebook or other social networks, or copy to your desktop.

The whole £1 goes to The BBC Children in Need Appeal and will help to support even more disadvantaged children and young people across the UK.

Have FUN!!!

Tockwith Art Group 9th November 2009

Many thanks to all who attended my Oil painting demonstration last night.

To complete the painting I made the following adjustments & added a few finishing touches.

• The same pre-mixed colours were used to cool down some of the warmer tones in the distant trees & hedges on the left hand side.


• I used my finger to soften some of the edges.


• The lighter areas of snow on the track were developed further.


• The snowy fields between the trees in the middle distance were lightened.


• All the final details to the hedges, trees & grass were added.

If you would like to view the painting in a larger format, please click on the image.

Hope to see you again in the future.

Sheriff Hutton Art Group 7th November 2009

Thank you for the warm welcome you gave me!

This is the completed painting after I made the following adjustments:

• A further 'wet into wet' watercolour wash , using pure Cobalt Blue, Raw Sienna & Cobalt Violet was introduced to the surrounding sand & wet mud. The wash was made slightly darker at the top of the painting around the boats & lighter & bluer through the centre section, to give the feeling of sky reflecting on the wet surface.


• A few random marks were made in the foreground to hint at pebbles & small rocks.


• The details of the boats were added using a mixture of Acrylic & Watercolour paint.


• The mooring ropes were painted with a No 2 'Rigger' brush using Acrylic mixes of Cadmium Yellow, Cadmium Red, Ultramarine Blue & White, to produce a range of colours from Olive Green to neutral blue - greys.