Steve's Blog
Not quite sure what will appear here. It will depend on whatever my random imagination comes up with.
Experimenting with the Zorn palette.
This is going to be all about painting with a limited palette. It’s something that I’ve sort of tried before and it’s a fantastic way of focussing the mind on what you are trying to create. However, whenever I’ve tried it in the past, I’ve always sort of made sure...
Café People
I have had a fascination for painting café scenes for many years. I think it's something about the lighting and the perspective that you get in a café that I like: that and all the different patterns and surfaces. There's also a...
Betws-y-Coed the River Llugwy in spate
For my first blog post for what seems like ages I've chosen this painting which is hot off the easel. Horrendous as the flooding has been recently, the rare event of two storms following in quick succession produced some fantastic scenes if, like me, painting water is...
Steve on BBC Radio Stoke
Today I was interviewed on the Perry Spiller Show on BBC Radio Stoke. I had a great time and for those of you who couldn't listen to it for whatever reason here it is in mp3 format.
Learning from others and making it your own.
In my last blog I talked about taking the envy that you feel for other artists’ work and converting it into something positive that enriches your own endeavours. In this short blog today, I thought I would give you an example from my own experience to illustrate what...
Why do I bother? Defeating the green-eyed demons.
When we are small we can all paint and draw, can’t we? Everything we do is fantastic. We know that, because our mums and dads tell us so and we believe them and our creative juices keep flowing. But so many adults that have told me that they can't paint or draw and I...