It’s five AM, I have just seen the most beautiful sunrise over the Aylesbury Vale on a dawn walk and I am now sat in our tiny courtyard garden – which is bursting with summerContinue reading
Gannet in pink and green? I hear you ask. Well, sort of, yes. This week we are following on from the previous post which was concerning basic complementary colour theory and we will put someContinue reading
Something which long since baffled me was colour. It seems so simple at first but then you start to look, think and ultimately confusion sets in. I find that in painting, with oils or acrylics,Continue reading
Hello all, welcome back to another of my pastel pencil tutorials, I hope you’re enjoying them so far! Thank you so much to everyone who has emailed in and contributed to the online community overContinue reading
I often get asked the question: how do you draw? It isn't the easiest question to answer: there is no straight response to it. I think the truest answer is that you practice, it isn'tContinue reading
Pastel Pencil Monarch Butterfly Another Friday and another tutorial to keep you drawing; to keep you from doing those tedious jobs and to try and retain your sanity, or at least that's why I draw.Continue reading
It's been a few weeks since I last posted something for you lovely people to get stuck into, and a good kitchen table project is perfect for lock-down, so here we are again with aContinue reading
It's lock-down, we are all inside to protect the NHS and each other, but, we all need a good project to get through this. I usually hold workshops for pastel pencils once a month inContinue reading
As a pastel pencil artist, I get asked a few things very regularly and one is, ‘how do you sharpen your pencils?’. It might seem like a straight forward question and most assume a pencilContinue reading
