andy’s art blog

Oil study, a landscape-y one this time, done in around 3 hours I guess, 10½” x 12″.

More learning… a short monochrome oil study of one of the sculptures in the Louvre.

I’ve been getting some oil painting practice in lately… still learning how to put down those patches of colour in the right value, the right temperature, in the right place and with the right edges… it sounds so simple when you lay it out in words, but in practice it’s a struggle to get what’s […]

I started playing around with pastels a while ago, and although I haven’t returned to them much this year, looking through some of the Pixar “Art Of…” books recently I’ve got an itch to get back into doing some more pastel paintings.
So, look out for some more pastels in the months ahead!

Been experimenting using drybrush techniques with watercolours, so far I’m really liking the expressiveness and directness it gives, lots of fun to use! Here’s some of the results so far.