OUR MIGRANT BIRDS HAVE FLOWN The snow brought a succession of flocks of Redwings and Fieldfares, to feed on our crab apples and holly ber...

SHEILA FELL Browsing the art shelves in my local library I was surprised and delighted to find a monograph on the Cumbrian painter Sheila ...

PAINTING BIRDS It was familiarity with Charles Tunnicliffe's watercolour paintings which aroused my interest in drawing and painting b...

BUZZARD STUDIES I've been fortunate this summer to be able to observe a young buzzard who took to perching on the goalposts on the vil...

NESTING KITTIWAKES This is a working study of nesting Kittiwakes. I photographed them through a telephoto lense from the boat going acros...

GREY WAGTAILS  Watercolour and bodycolour 31 x 41cm on 300gsm Arches.Not. This is a sheet of Grey Wagtail studies made from two skins. ...

RAILWAY ART - A NOSTALGIC GLIMPSE INTO A LOST AGE. One aspect of the steam train era I get nostalgic about is the poster and carriage art. B...

A WATERCOLOUR PAINTER IN THE ENGLISH TRADITION I've been fortunate over several years to have been given advice from more senior members...

VALLEY IN THE DOLOMITES 2 Here's the finished half-sheet watercolour. I've made use of Titanium White as a bodycolour because it is ...

VALLEY IN THE DOLOMITES This is a view near Siror done on holiday in the Dolomites some years ago. I've got a stretched sheet of Waterf...

TREVI FOUNTAIN Digital cameras are a great aid for the painter. I'm showing a way of using a digital camera to help paint a watercolour ...

WINTER GULLS These gulls were scavenging on the sea front at Ostend. It was December last uear, bitterly cold and I was with friends. Not th...

GARDEN VISITOR This grey squirrell was under the apple tree in my garden - an easy target for a 300mm lens I took 6 photographs and based th...

DIGITAL STUDY AFTER DEGAS This study is taken from one of Degas’ late pastels. He did a series of them at the end of his life when he was to...

MEET 'LITTLE DIGGER' He's a Burrowing Owl another bird from the collection at the Rare Breeds Farm at Kington, Herefordshire. Hi...

SNOWY OWL AGAIN It was good to get back to this project. I’ve completed a quick composition sketch from the drawings. Charles Tunnicliffe di...

SNOWY OWL These sketches were made at the Rare Breeds Centre at Kington, Herefordshire. This seemed a very shy, nervous bird who didn’t like...

KEEPING AN EYE ON THE BIRDS This is a sketchbook page of moorhen studies drawn from digital photographs taken on a recent walk along the Wor...

Today's Wake-up Call When preparing for a day in the studio it's nice to do a practice 'warm up' study from a sketchbook. To...

Why I always stretch paper This is a plein air sketch I did a few weeks ago at our week-end workshop at Clunton. I was using 300gsm Fabrian...