Tips and Techniques Blog
and the Diary of an artist
I document my journey and share my process with tips and techniques and lots of inspiration for other watercolourists
Painting from Life
15 Feb 2026
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Painting Fairy Wren - Mini Me #219
12 Feb 2026
Painting a Superb Fairy Wren
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A Year in the life of an Artist
26 Dec 2025
A year in the life of an artist a review of my studio life in 2025
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Tis the Season
25 Dec 2025
12 years of Christmas paintings
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Memories from France
25 Nov 2025
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The Year of 2024
29 Dec 2024
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Colour Testing and Creating Texture
28 Sep 2024
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Easy level - Coloured Pebbles
26 Sep 2024
Painting a coloured pebbles or stones - easy level
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Easy level - Paint This Little Piggy
11 Sep 2024
Painting a Pig in Watercolour - easy level
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Easy level - Paint a Panda
9 Sep 2024
Painting a painting in Watercolour - easy level
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The Diva
26 Aug 2024
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The Year of 2023
31 Dec 2023
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Intuitive Poppies
3 Oct 2023
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Forever Tulips
4 Jul 2023
Tulips lasting forever
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It's Time
14 Apr 2023
Renewing your palette choices
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Hibiscus
13 Mar 2023
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Anemone and the Bee
30 Jan 2023
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Magnolia - Little Gems
2 Jan 2023
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The Year of 2022
31 Dec 2022
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Gladioli
17 Dec 2022
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Liquid Charcoal
15 Dec 2022
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Mixed Bunch
5 Dec 2022
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Resource Treasures
29 Nov 2022
Having a good reference image is valued but having great one is treasured.
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White Lily
20 Nov 2022
Saving the whites of the Paper and seeing the difference in standard and hi white
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Dahlia
19 Oct 2022
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Painting Zebra
7 Oct 2022
Keep on track of getting the white and black stripes in the right place
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Black Tulip Magnolia
30 Sep 2022
My process in creating a floral work of Black Tulip Magnolia
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Painting from Life
5 Aug 2022
Painting from life adds so much to the journey of a painting. Of course it is not always possible and so we do need a good collection of reference material.
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Mixing Oranges
24 Jul 2022
Understanding colour mixing in watercolour is so important if fresh bright and clean colours are wanted.
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Playtime with Bertie
14 Jul 2022
Having just purchased a few new pigments from Holbein I was keen to test them in a painting.
