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Lincoln Part 2 – Castles, Cathedrals and Railways

Lincoln Part 2 – Castles, Cathedrals and Railways

Reading Time: 7 minutes I’ve split up the material from our visit to Lincoln, so as to not create huge long posts. On Sunday, after a very nice breakfast, and being very sad to leave the hotel room, we head out to explore the Castle and the Cathedral. The 

Trip to Lincoln – Shopping and Dining and Pretty Things

Trip to Lincoln – Shopping and Dining and Pretty Things

Reading Time: 3 minutes There’s been mutterings from T’Other ‘Alf that we don’t go away enough. I have to say I am quite lazy about such things, which is odd as I love getting out and the chance to actually do a bit of photography from time to time 

A few bitesize tutorials from t’Interwebs

A few bitesize tutorials from t’Interwebs

Reading Time: 3 minutes Facebook knows… Unsuprisingly I have had about a million and a half adverts for dubious watercolour tutorial sites crop up on my facebook recently (if you want an interesting article by the way, have a look at this) and have mostly ignored these as attempts 

Pine Trees

Pine Trees

Reading Time: < 1 minutes While on our first (hopefully of many) walks of the year I took a photo, as I have before, of the pine trees on Parkside Road. I’m always fascinated by these trees and (I am not sure if this is cut to avoid the road) 

Doodles

Doodles

Reading Time: 2 minutes I have recently been in some rather lengthy training for work, and while I have always been a doodler in meetings, I had one of my small sketchbooks with me and throught I would do my doodles in the sketchbook. I was quite impressed with 

Spring has sprung (just)…

Spring has sprung (just)…

Reading Time: 2 minutes I have again been doing less photography recently, and a lot of it has been using my phone. I never thought that I would say this, but it is very convenient and (other than not having an aperture priority setting) covers as much as my 

Over The Lake  – Letting The Paint do It’s Thing (AKA so quick it feels like cheating…)

Over The Lake – Letting The Paint do It’s Thing (AKA so quick it feels like cheating…)

Reading Time: 2 minutes I got to searching last night for a bit of guidance on painting dark value images in watercolour, and stumbled upon this website. Wandering away from my initial search there are a lot of paintings in a very impressionist style – very much against fussing, 

One Colour a Day – Week 9

One Colour a Day – Week 9

Reading Time: < 1 minutes A week of cooking and dining! Pancake day, followed by Valentine’s Day (and a slightly groggy morning from curry and wine), then going out drinking for a rare occurance. We made Vermont Baked Beans and Carlin Pea Casserole.

One Colour a Day – Week 8

One Colour a Day – Week 8

Reading Time: < 1 minutes The forgotton week. I didn’t really keep up with this week. Hence a few pallete remnants really.

Flowers – Wet on (very) Wet

Flowers – Wet on (very) Wet

Reading Time: 3 minutes After poppy that crept into my One Colour a Day book the other week I went off on a bit of a crazy exploration of wet on wet flowers over the last few days. This was very much an extensive exploration into how the paint 

Shipley Glen in Watercolour

Shipley Glen in Watercolour

Reading Time: 2 minutes After the watercolour country lane tutorials I completed the other day I was inspired by the colours to work from some picture I took in Shipley Glen some years ago. I also wanted to play with the square format some more. Often the challenge in 

One Colour a Day – Week 7

One Colour a Day – Week 7

Reading Time: < 1 minutes Week 7 of One Colour a day. The teeniest beginnings of spring are starting to show and I have been walking to work a little, though we will have no mention of Chardonnay this week, as Someone Who Shall Remain Nameless decided to throw a