Most of you are probably aware that I rather enjoy being out in nature with my sketchbook and a Danish pastry (that's a cake, of cou...

    I hope all of you out there had a great festive season, or if Christmas isn't your thing then you have been enjoying yourself. I see...

    It's a pretty miserable, wet, misty day here in Mid-Wales, the sort that puts many people right off going out to sketch the landscap...

    Including figures in a landscape painting is one of the most basic ways of suggesting a sense of scale, but in a vast landscape where do...

    As usual, life is so full of exciting activities that it's hard to find time to blog, especially when I'd rather be communing wi...

    If you really want to give your landscape paintings a boost one of the most effective methods is to inject a strong dose of atmosphere i...

    This is a great time for getting wet in the cause of art - taking your sketchbook and a watersoluble graphite pencil into the shallow su...