Winter is a really interesting time to paint the landscape, it can often lead you to getting all thoughtful and deep. 😉

Plein air painting, in historic Cambridge.

Plein air painting, in historic Cambridge. Beautiful doorway of Pembroke College. See some interesting things whilst out painting, like the car from Only Fools and Horses. Then there's of course the challenge of dealing with urban traffic, but he wasn't there for long and a good day painting was had.

Oil Painting Tutorial - Basic Paint Mixing and Colour theory

Recently, I completed my first instuctional video on Oil Painting - all done with a smart phone, bit of knoweldge of Photoshop, Audacity and Movie Maker. And of course oil painting

You can watch it here and let me know what you think.

Summer watercolour sketches

The english isle are beautiful, especially in the summer. Here's a couple of sketches done at the weekend.

The Great Outdoors!

After being indoors all day painting at the easel, in fact pretty much all week. I was in need of some open space, peace from the rat race and noisy neighbours, and to find my place in natural surroundings. I took myself off on my bike to Clayhaith.

Sunset, Clayhaith - David Wood

I did this watercolour sketch as the sun was setting, the atmosphere and colours were amazing.

For me twilight is the most mysterious and magical time when looking at the landscape. There are often amazing colours and harmonies to be seen and the contrast in tones pales out to beautiful hues. But once the sun had sunk the temperature also dropped dramatically, thoughts of hot tea and buttered toast, a warm abode and wishing I had brought an extra per of socks. Time to go home.