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Brambles RamblesWe have been running Painting Holidays for near on twenty years. Read about the tales we have to tell, the tips we have gleaned and some of the marvellous characters met and adventures had, along the way. A place where Janet and Peter reminisce and ramble about art and anything else.
It’s time to find my mojo!
[inspiration, sketching] What is it that presses your creative button? What starts those painting juices flowing? Something spurs on the ideas and suddenly you’re creating, painting and in the zone. When your last work was so “deep.” From a place that took courage...
It’s time to find my mojo!
What is it that presses your creative button? What starts those painting juices flowing? Something spurs on the ideas and suddenly you’re creating, painting and in the zone. When your last work was so “deep.” From a place that took courage to visit and express on a...
![[sketching, artist] 100 views of Mt Fuji](https://newtestdivi.bramblesartretreat.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/image0-400x250.jpeg)
[sketching, artist] 100 views of Mt Fuji
While in Tokyo we went to the national museum to see the Japanese national treasures. One in particular stood out - Hokusai. Many of his beautiful wood cut prints, which look like paintings are there and some very special hand painted scrolls. Several of his works...
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
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...
Rambles: Painting the Autumn Leaves
Hoping our brambles rambles fans like a demo, this shirt video of me painting up some autumn leaves is available to to watch, take a look…..https://www.sketchaway.co.uk/autumn-leaves-demo