Fine tuning this to find the perfect set-up for trekking and painting outdoors. Consider this the MK 1. At the moment I'm using acrylics cos they dry fast but I want to start using oils as the paint stays

Getting out there with my portable painting setup. The easel, paints & everything all fitting into a rucksack. This is my first painting with the new setup and my first painted Plein Air (outdoors

The last blast of Winter tries hard, but you can feel it's power fading. Chinks of warmth and new growth are splintering through, and down by the lake we are awakening.

Life Drawing back on in the morning 930am Gonna go B/W- charcoal/ ink/ acrylic/ graphite/ chalk Got an idea to go in heavy & fast. Lots of layers and intensity with the background + figure taking an

From the last session of 2017 and now it's a new year and I'm waiting for the Life Drawing class to start up again. It's too cold here to paint outside and the short gloomy days of Winter don't provide

Some thoughts for your consideration: Sorting through my stuff, I'm in the middle of purging my possessions, getting down to the bare minimum I need ready for the minimalist life aboard a boat. It sure

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How far can you take £20 / €20 / $20 ?? Join in the 2018 Crypto Challenge to see how much you can make thru Cryptocurrency trades, starting out with just £20 (or your Country's equivalent ). I began this

This is an entry for @yoganarchista nude drawing contest. My most recent life drawing done last Friday directly from the nude model. I usually draw with a brush now as I find it a lot more natural than

Can you advise a good secure way to store Cryptocurrencies, and particularly Ripple? Over the past week and a half I've dabbled in cryptocurrencies and made a decent enough profit that I'm going to go

Exploring further colour combinations and layers to create more vibrancy. These are done in a life drawing session, painting directly from the model and not altered.

A small community of 8 or 9 houses nestled in the woodland above Grindleford Station, Derbyshire, England. This place has always had great views but now with the snow covering everything it takes on another

It's not such a crazy idea Here in England more and more people are buying up narrow boats and moving onto the water as full time live aboards. There seem to be two distinct types of boater and they are:

I've shared some techniques in this one as I remembered to take photos! Starting the month and the morning with a Life Drawing Session. I kept the colours bright, mixing everything from the three primaries

Blind sketches done watching videos and not looking at the paper then isolate and crop interesting looking areas and mirror enlarge rotate a few together. Build up rough compositions that suggest further

A local theatre company, Open Minds Theatre Company put on a symphony last night on the River Don. A flotilla of boats, pyrotechnics, brass bands and drums. All to celebrate the town's industrial heritage.

Painting A2, acrylics. Three colours + white. Painted directly from the model. I've gone a bit more subtle than usual rather than the heavy sculptural brush strokes and kept the colours more subdued.

My favourite piece of Street Art photographed for @Daveks photography contest. Camera used: Motorola Moto G camera phone.

They're setting up ready for the weekend erecting the largest beer tent the park has seen and bringing in a mass of refrigeration units to cool all those pints...