In the blog post How Plein Air painting differs from Perceptual Painting? Larry Groff muses over the difference between the popular painters of today like Plein Air artists who find their way into magazines and perceptual painters who have a more modern take on the world and find their way into galleries. Personally, I’ve never … Read more
The paintings and sketches are just some from a recent St Ives painting short course I attended at the St Ives school of painting. I was down there for five days and the course only lasted for three, but I wanted to experience what painting on-site was like. Plein Air painting has a long tradition … Read more
Back years ago I was small, quiet, mediocre. The only thing you could have said about me was I wanted to live up to my potential. Taken from my own life one of the biggest obstacles I faced is the idea that I couldn’t be, nor did I deserve to be more than what I … Read more
What’s missing in my life? Well many things but one I can identify is time for fun. Messing about, play. Sometimes I don’t want a goal a purpose to work towards. Measure my success rate, wonder how I’m doing, am I doing it right. I want to do something without the oversight of my own … Read more
The learning of any skill is complex and somewhat mysterious process but the Four Stages of Competence outlines the psychological stages the journey from incompetence to mastery takes. They go as follows: What can be said about these stages? Although it’s a neat description of the stages, I wonder how it can be of practical … Read more
Here are a few more efforts from my pencil or brush. These four paintings of the cherry I did together. The first is based upon a cherry tutorial by Will Kemp and for the template for the others. The Next is a monochrome version it painted to understand value. The next one is a more … Read more