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It's been my lifetime ambition to illustrate a children's picture book, so it was a dream come true when my daughter – who's a creative writing lecturer - offered to partner me by writing the story. I loved the stories Zoë (who's published under the name of Zed Jacey) was...

This watercolour - completed from a photograph taken early in the morning in March 2017 at one of my favourite locations - Castle Howard in North Yorkshire. From this side of the great lake you can look up to the right to make out the house in the distance. The...

My way of teaching is to provide ‘building blocks, techniques and tools’ that help to make the process easier!! A simple approach makes things so much more interesting so here are my ideas about using a fairly limited palette. The first painting that I want to show you is of...

Most often, in my classes, I use a limited palette (usually versions of the three primary colours) as I believe that this simplifies the painting for my students, and generally helps a painting become more pleasing on the eye. I often choose three primary colours….although not perhaps the classic ones...