Images of the month (Painters Online, November 2013)

My "Sunflower Square / Last Sunflower" is one of Painters Online's images of the month (November 2013). Which is nice.

Not on canvas any more...

Something to make you smile, I hope...

Thankfully, the promised storm seems to have turned out to be a bit of a damp squib in this area.

Micheldever Shopping

That Micheldever Christmas thing.

A Bit Like Portreath

This 5x7 inch canvas was painted with two wintery photgraphs of Portreath, Cornwall, in front of me, but is only loosely based on them.

Oil on canvas, 5 x 7"

Micheldever Woods

I've got a Christmas craft fair in Micheldever next month, so I thought I'd do something with the best photograph from our visit to the woods that share the village's name. It's really about the way that the light catches the leaves, making them glow.

Oil on Canvas, 20 x 50 cm
SOLD

Things I Have Learned From Making Self Portraits

1. Conté on blue Murano paper

It's quite an education, doing self portraits.

Inktense Sketches

"Inktense" is one of Derwent's brand names They found a way of locking up strong ink pigment in a solid form that could be released with water. A bit like blocks of watercolour, but using ink, not paint. And the colour can be used dry as well.

Derwent are best known for their pencils, so - naturally - they encased this interesting material in wood and sold it as Inktense pencils (as well as bars). I was a bit slow in picking up on Inktense, but I recently bought a tin of 12 pencils, and here are a couple of my exploratory sketches.