Desaturation, brown and grey.

Desaturation, brown and grey.

To make a brown add any two opposites in the colour wheel. Ie. red and green, blue and orange, or yellow and purple. To make a grey add blue to brown and add some white. This is particularly useful In practice when you want to take the edge off a colour or grey it out...
You Don’t Have to Paint the Telegraph Poles

You Don’t Have to Paint the Telegraph Poles

But sometimes the telegraph poles are THE THING! Inspired by driving along the Devon lanes in late summer early evenings, with the light splashing onto the telegraph poles. The effect was created in acrylic on canvas board by first painting the sky and cloud wet into...
Kingsbridge Exhibition

Kingsbridge Exhibition

Last day I’ll be at the Harbour House gallery manning the exhibition. It closes tomorrow — take down at 2pm. Had lots of nice comments and ran a very enjoyable charcoal workshop.