Tag: watercolour
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Pen and Ink: New York Reflections
I’ve tried making a bigger version of one of my watercolour postcards of New York – it’s now 20x30cm on 300gsm paper.
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ARTATHON MILESTONE: 250 postcards!!
Yesterday I painted my 250th postcard! Just over a hundred to go now until I meet my 365 watercolour postcard target by the end of the year. I’d love it if you could sponsor me in this Artathon- all the money raised goes to UNICEF for its fantastic work with children around the world. This…
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ARTATHON Milestone- 150 POSTCARDS!
Today I painted my 150th postcard! So only 215 to go then… HELP! For motivational purposes I’d love it if you could sponsor me through my Just Giving page www.justgiving.com/Escapeartist (Thank you so much to those who already have). These are my favourite 25 postcards so far..
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This morning I have mostly been .. making a London splotch
I wanted to blow up part of postcard 17 of London into a larger watercolour, and this is the result. I like the abstract pattern I’ve made of the buildings, but i think I should stick to acrylics when I do big paintings! (I also later decided I wanted to update postcard 17 because i…
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Big Night Out (BNO)
I’ve now been off work for nearly 5 months which is a little bit scary. I don’t miss it at all (dad is on a conference call at the moment that is vividly reminding me of how much I dislike conference calls and how little it is possible to achieve during a conference call) except…
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St Pauls Cathedral
Inspired by my own work (What!?! I hear you cry? You are recycling your own work after only 2 days of the artathon challenge? This does not bode well! Do not fear dear blog readers I have plenty of ideas, just wanted to get painting watercolour versions of my London acrylic painting out of the…
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Experimenting with the Shard
Based on this amazing photo my friend Laurence took: http://instagram.com/p/htqU35Qmup/
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Boxing day painting…Bath
My brother and his long term girlfriend Helen met at Bath University. I did this watercolour as a (slightly late!) Christmas present for her.
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