The Watercolour Log

Recently one of my painting friends and senior member of Avon Valley Artists - Yvonne Harry - has been engaged in an exchange of e-mails wit...

In 2012 the popular pigment PY153 Nickel Dioxine Yellow was discontinued, no doubt because of lack of demand from the chemical and/or auto ...

The last meeting of Avon Valley Artists had as the subject `Animals'.  I selected a photograph of two Rhinoceros - probably mother and...

This is an interesting pigment which is given the `Top Forty' accolade by Bruce McEvoy of Handprint. It has never been a `must have...

Looking at Gerard Hendriks way with birds and animals and  his `painting a day' series, I was prompted to try something   sort of simil...

This week the subject was `Fruit' just that. Although attendance has not been great this session we had the unusually low figure of on...

This is a new colour introduced by Daniel Smith in early 2011, who claim exclusivity, at least for the present.  It is a transparent non-g...

With the weather somewhat better I was able to do some outdoor painting this week. This was at the Thursday morning session of my Avon Va...

Once again due to the weather it wasn't possible to paint outdoors so the AVA group were again in St. Marys Church hall this last Thurs...

This is a study of Moorhens, one of my favourite birds or should I say wildfowl. The little chicks are far more savy than Mallard ducklings...

Following up the previous posts on Daniel Smith the question arises are they worth the extra premium UK  and European buyers have to pay? I ...

Following on from Pt.1 here are the pages from the 238 Dot Try-iT sheets. To summarize they are dots of paint on watercolour paper covering...