I was really looking forward to the weekend as on Thursday and Friday I had to take son #3 to his early morning job at the gym eating into my lovely precious painting time. I think I have exhausted my brain though so it’s time to take a bit of a break but I’d like […]

Some days I seem to whizz through and other days are just a teensy bit slower. If you blink today you just might miss what I’ve done this morning but my rule is better to do some painting however small than none at all. Such is the roller coaster of life of an artist, the […]

Oh my goodness! This sudden drop in temperature might well become a threat to my hard won discipline of waking up at the crack of dawn. In spite of my recent excitement about my current painting I found myself snuggled up a little longer in bed this morning as I contemplated shifting my stiff joints […]

I was up at the crack of dawn this morning eager as a beaver and raring to go. Truth be told, I didn’t get much sleep but strangely I still feel energised and full of adrenaline from a full day of painting yesterday. I had to dig deep to find the same discipline I use […]

It’s time for me to sit back again and enjoy that spiritual moment between me and my painting.  I’ve had a fabulous day knowing when I put my brush down its not to rush off to do my day job but just to stand back and view the progress so far. I am going to […]

It’s been nice have long, consecutive, undisturbed hours to work on this painting today. Having satisfied myself that all the elements are in place and that the proportions and scale are relatively ok I have committed my outlines more permanently with acrylic paint. This means I am just about ready to start adding colour. I […]

It was great to be able to get back to my drawing this morning and have managed to spend a whole hour getting some detail in. The time spent included a lot of standing away from the drawing because it is important to get the scale and proportion right or as right as is acceptable. […]

I didn’t get much done this morning and I say this without malice or disgruntlement but perhaps a hint of impatience. My normal day started unusually early when I had to drive Elliot to his new job at the gym and as the  buses don’t run so early it was my motherly duty. Can we […]

I am going to try and keep a series of short daily blogs to document my next painting ‘Accra Circle’ (working title). This is going to be a street scene from Accra Circle, a busy hub of activity in the capital of Ghana.  I’ve started by painting with a ground of a mixture of cadmium […]