Welcome to my Gallery, with a selection of some of my recent paintings. I have always enjoyed painting portraits, landscapes and seascapes in Oils and Watercolours.
Some are more realistic paintings and some are looser. I find it depends on how I feel about the subject at the time. I hope you enjoy looking through them.

For oil painting, I work on stretched canvas, and canvas board. I also find that stretched acrylic paper, primed with Gesso is a good support too.
In the past, I have enjoyed stretching my own canvas. It’s a bit of a fiddle having to size the canvas, before priming with rabbit hide glue. My wife loves me heating that up upon the oven! However, it puts you in touch with artists of old. However, each canvas has its own character and is quite different from shop-bought Pre-stretched canvas.
The oil paints that I use are the Winsor & Newton Artist range. As well as Michael Harding handmade oil paints, which are lovely to use.

I love the immediacy of watercolour painting. Again I use Winsor & Newton Artist paints. I like hot and cold pressed papers and have lately been using Clairefontaine papers in a block. Which I find very convenient.

You can’t beat a good sable brush for watercolour painting. I tend to go for round ones.
However, for oil painting, a mix of round and flat brushes works well for me.

I do find that at the moment, with my illustration work, that I do not have as much time as I would like to do my own paintings. However, keep looking and hopefully, I’ll have posted some new ones soon!