This is one of my first blog posts for my website. This picture was done as part of a costa coffee project where I took patients out to a variety of coffee shops and we sat drawing and sketching cups, cakes and people. A simple concept which helped peoples confidence and social skills alongside developing […]
This piece is a rough demo pic, acrylic on board, to show colour mixing and various mark making techniques. It’s based on Welsh hills and I’ve used fingers, brushes, sponges and bubble wrap to create various effects, much to the bemusement of some patients.
Always find that I paint the food I am planning to eat, trying to combine this into a semi abstract style and alter it to make it a bit more interesting. I try to emphasize to my students the importance of having real life objects in front of them to draw, it helps rather than […]
This pic was completed in a sketch book during a trip around the Lake District, via train, bus and boat. It rained a lot during the trip but I’m quite keen on the rain, the skies and the lush landscape in the UK. I met an old widower who was 83 who kept calling me […]