Become a watercolour whizz with my series of simple, single coloured studies! This fortnight it is a green pepper! I will show you every step – you can do it! Click below to watch on Youtube. Continue reading Watercolour Whizz! Paint Now
Starting this week on Youtube I am offering a short and sweet single colour watercolour study! These will come out every fortnight and will help you glean watercolour techniques. Start today by painting this simple orange pumpkin. Getting regular and simple practice is great for beginners as well as seasoned painters! Keep your skills sharp and enjoy painterly peace, pleasure & prowess! Alison Continue reading Become a Watercolour Whizz!
That’s if you are interested in joining my brand new, exclusive online teaching platform – Patreon! Patreon will offer The Pottering Artist content that no-one else will EVER see at prices that are the best EVER for monthly muse-rich enjoyment! A simple sign-up subscription and you’re sorted! Access arty and engaging content immediately. Attain peace, pleasure and prowess by being a Patron of the arts and supporting … Continue reading 7 Sleeps to Go till The Pottering Artist goes live on Patreon!
Dear Reader On 1st August I am launching a watercolour idyll on Patreon. It will be an online home for painters seeking peace, pleasure and prowess. I will be offering 3 tiers of incredibly good value patronage subscriptions. It is my intention that this happy club will give you an online parcel of painterly goodies on the 1st of every month at seriously unbeatable value. … Continue reading The Pottering Artist Moves to Patreon – Would you like to come?
Watercolour Sunflowers for Stay at Home Painters Would you like a full – realtime – supported watercolour video to watch and paint? I have filmed a full hour and a half long watercolour sunflower and apples still life tutorial for you. You can watch it now on Youtube for free. Here is the link. NEED THE OUTLINE? If you need the outline and step by … Continue reading Watercolour Sunflowers for Stay at Home Painters
If you are a romantic fool like me and think that living off-grid in a secluded cabin is for you then this is going to rock your socks. Read this fabulously frank and insightful article about doing just that – locating a lonely forested spot, building your timber abode and living there for a year. Click this link to read this warts and all account … Continue reading Log Cabin Lovers Look Away Now
Look at what dead, spiritless plastic junk we give our babies, toddlers and young children to play with. It is shocking how these young, impressionable fingers will hold mostly man-made objects for the first days, weeks, months and years of their lives. That thought worries me as they are from birth disconnected from elemental things – earthy things – mother nature’s feel. How will children … Continue reading Re-enchant the World one Child at a Time
This title captivated me as I long for a more earthy connection. Read about how Saga Mariah Sandberg from Sweden absorbs and channels her woodland environnment into her beautiful art via this link – https://anotherescape.com/featured-stories/raised-by-the-forest Meantime – her is a delightful taset of the whole article – read and be enchanted and encouraged as a nature artist… “From an early age, I would draw everything around … Continue reading Raised by the Forest
Just lately I have cleared an awful lot of big and scary art business deadlines such as course writing and magazine publishing. Now their looming presence is gone I feel freer and moer relaxed. The other night as I sat and watched Vera I had the added comfort of my Khadi journal open on my lap, my Jack Russell Tilly by my side and my … Continue reading Sketching my Jack Russell whilst Watching TV
If even getting down to some art feeling like wading through treacle then establishing a simple plan will help. We are all busy with life – errands, duties, work, should and must do’s so even trying to get some art time seems like an obstacle course. This is where structure comes in This year I am going to put time aside for not painting but … Continue reading Structure Keeps you Sane
