The Watercolour Log

Looking at the heading one might think what is this colour? The old colour was Brown Madder now replaced or replicated by this modern orga...

I can't paint at the moment due to an accident, involving my right hand yesterday and resulting in a visit to the Bath RUH A & E. S...

"Phthalocyanine blue PB15 in its various shades (PB15:1 and PB15:6 are middle or reddish shades; PB15:3 is the greenish shade).......

This is a fairly quick study (11/2 hours with breaks) I painted it at the AVA `unofficial' session on Thursday. Only ten members were p...

Sitting Bull is one of the major figures in the history of the conflict between the American Indians and the settlers/ American cavalry. A...

For some considerable time I have been aware that the lack of an index is a problem, especially as the blog is now nearly five years old. On...

I'm not exactly certain when I first became aware of Charles Reid. I believe it may have been an article in `The Artist' magazine in...

The title may be melodramatic but this paint is one of the most controversial there is, damned by some and praised - or at least used - by ...

My latest Amerindian is another attempt at Sitting Bull, the famous Sioux leader and implacable foe of the white man. His opposition eventu...

Avon Valley Artists participated in this annual (or is it bi-annual?) event on Saturday and Sunday 29th and 30th June.  I have become disen...