Paintings For Elizabeth’s Footprint -from Elizabeth’s Piano Music Festival 2016 The Piano paintings have arrived back from the lovely Lee...

Hi Guys, this week I m mixing Chromatic Darks and Greys. Chromatic Darks and Greys are made using a combination of red, blue and yellow...

As Promised here is the spectrum of colours mixed using a split primary palette of Watercolour. Just to recap,Watercolour paint is colour...

This week I will be looking at mixing a great split palette colour wheel with 6 Acrylic colours just as we did last week with oil. Again...

Welcome, This week my students and I have been talking and thinking about how to create a wheel of colour from a first split primary...

Hi Guys This week I ve been trying out my new shellac covered birch ply surface and I ve got to say I like it. I began by mixing my...

This week I would like to talk about exploring what kinds of mediums that are available to us. This was what we were talking about in...

Hi everyone, this week I have been drawing my students attention to painting surface options, a subject that we tend to overlook and...

During November and December I have been creating a 5m mobile for the "Best Wishes" campaign to raise funds for rise and recline chairs...

During August of this year I was contacted by Pino Nicoletti, a well known Professor of art in Matera, Italy. I was asked to join a group...

Several hand cut mobiles were made for the music festival all based on British butterflies ,you may have seen them about the town. In...

During June I was lucky enough to be asked to make several creative hanging instilations for Cheltenham Music Festival. I was asked to...

Well huge apologies for not writing a post for such a long time, I'm afraid life has been busy for us Tricker's, but Im back to share...

Hi Guys, This week I wanted to discuss the importance of preparing a notan sketch as well as a thumbnail tonal sketch. This is a great...

Hi Guys, Well apologies for not posting for last week. I got down to Hampshire and my connection was so bad I had to wait to post until...

Hi Guys and welcome Apologies for the late post today. I wanted to share the watercolour sketches done in Avebury. What an amazingly...

Morning everyone, Well I'm working in the studio today. I have 5 paintings to bring to a conclusion and a couple of large birch ply...

Hi Guys, Thank you for joining me today. Welcome to those of you dropping in to my site and to my Landscape students, no class this week...

Hi Guys, Thank you for joining me to my students and visitors to my site .This Monday we had no formal lesson but I wanted to take the...

Hi there, Well what a busy week I've had this week both artistically and with my landscape students.I would like to concentrate on my...