The Watercolour Log

Tim Hetherington was a famous war photographer and journalist. I say was because, sadly, he was killed in Libya by a mortar bomb on 20th Apr...

This is the latest photograph in the ongoing (fun) competition between Mick Carney and myself .  .www.thepaintingstruggle.blogspot.com/ T...

The other day I wandered along the lane near my home and collected a bunch of wild flowers, both from the verges of the road, down into the ...

9" x 9" (23cm x 23cm) Paperback 160 pages Published in 2010 by Search Press, with a reprint in 2011, this is a translation of a ...

The impermanence or `fugitive' qualities of the popular Alizarin Crimson PR83 were discussed last week. Actually there is no such thing ...

We know about `lightfastness' or more commonly `fading' in watercolours. This means that in so-called fugitive paints the origi...

Flowers..and Things.- Canson Fontenay 16" x 12" Rough The other day I decided that I needed a change of subject and went into my...

This months competition between Mick Carney www.thepaintingstruggle.blogspot.com/  was my choice. Mick posted his painting yesterday. ...

As a change from my Amerindians I was taken by an illustration in one of the weekend colour magazines. This is the young lady concerned. H...

Viktoria demonstrating The interest in this artist has been considerable, one of the most popular posts recently, and I determined to find ...