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Pottering About Weekly - A New Series Featuring Article Extracts Taken From My Indie Magazine - Out Here Every Wednesday!

This is the first in a weekly series that starts on Wednesday 23rd March 2022 and will feature excerpts from articles taken from 1 of my 7 issues to date (more coming soon!) of “Pottering About” (Previously known as “The Pottering Artist” magazine. You can buy the PDF of the magazine here from me - https://www.thepotteringartist.co.uk/product/issue-1-the-pottering-artist or You can buy the softcover copy here - … Continue reading Pottering About Weekly - A New Series Featuring Article Extracts Taken From My Indie Magazine - Out Here Every Wednesday!

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Watercolour Morrisman - Work in Progress

It’s with great excitement that after 2 years of hanging around the attic I am finally getting on with this Morrisman. I love Morris Dancers with their unapologetic wildly floral hats, bells, ribbons and stick bashing antics. This was painted on Two Rivers paper and is still workable after laying in the initial washes 2 years ago! #tworiverspaper#tworivers#jimpatterson Continue reading Watercolour Morrisman - Work in Progress

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Watercolour Whizz - Episode 4 - Mushroom - is live! Get Good at Watercolour.

Hi watercolour artist in training - here is my latest watercolour study for you to get quick wins, confidence and skill. We’ll be painting a delicately pigmented mushroom. So carve out a quiet 3o minutes of you time, prepare your paints, brushes, paper and water and scurry off to your painting nok. If you like the video on Youtube would you mind clicking th elike … Continue reading Watercolour Whizz - Episode 4 - Mushroom - is live! Get Good at Watercolour.

A Horse Lover’s Dream

This is a recent delicate watercolour study of two horse riders crossing a meadow at early dawn - https://www.artfinder.com/product/misty-mounts-watercolour-horsemen-original-study/ It is a simple study in warm tones of amber, rust and brown. I enjoyed painting the misty elemenst and the romantic eastern european skyline of towers and turrets. Continue reading A Horse Lover’s Dream

Watercolour Enchantment

Do you yearn to escape to the natural deep calm of the evergreens? On my new watercolour course we will gather our paints and wander far into the pinetree woodlands and paint enchanted flora and fauna. To learn more about what you will get from this course click here -https://the-pottering-artist.teachable.com/p/painting-watercolour-forests-the-enchanted-evergreen Enrolment is now open! Here is the course curriculum above - we will cover a … Continue reading Watercolour Enchantment

Effortless Emergence - Taking Nature’s Lead and Striving Less

On this chilly final February morning I was on the return journey home with Tilly when - to my left - on a neighbour’s lawn - I spotted a single, snow-white crocus. It was alone in the grass and it stopped me in my tracks - bringing a smile to my face as it did so. It was so serene and simple. Its presence declared … Continue reading Effortless Emergence - Taking Nature’s Lead and Striving Less

Watercolourists! Let Me Enchant You…

If you yearn to paint the magic and mystery of evergreen forests at dusk and if you need to be taken by the hand and shown myriad techniques and approaches to evoke the wonder of the wild woodland then this course is for you! https://mailchi.mp/bb96c6cef3ee/o5m9786vdm I will show you how to paint not only isolated and detailed studies of pinecones, fungi, forest textures and the … Continue reading Watercolourists! Let Me Enchant You…