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My early Xmas present (to myself) of a beautiful box of Winsor & Newton oil colours arrived to day. How long will I be able to keep my fingers off it, I wonder?

I have been using their alkyds and their student winton range of oils, as well as the water mixables, but these are the top of the range paints. They look so good in their wooden box. I must have thought myself worth it! At the moment, I plan to use them for the final glazes on paintings to see how they feel and to see if they are m… Continue

The box of watercolours has grabbed my attention all week. I painted mainly figures in water… Continue

Oils are enjoyable for me to use recently. Mostly I am messing around with slapping paint on and seeing if an image appears. I think all this bravado with the brush/knife marks will transfer to my realistic painting when I get around to doing that again... kind of loosening it up. On the other hand, I may just like all this abstract work so much I may never go back to 'realism'. I laugh out loud and smile and generally enjoy the abstract-whimsy style so much when I am in the midst of it. For rea… Continue

I enjoyed painting this little whimsy in oils (5ins by 8ins) this morning. Its called… Continue

Yesterday I was working on the sleepy lizard and decided to try marshmallow thinking. I thought of floating marshmallows on hot chocolate. So I did a small watercolour of the lizard (my chocolate) and floated my OP on top (marshmallows). First time I've used OP over waterco… Continue