A couple of landscape sketches

I go out when i can to get some studies from observation, thinking particularly of colours and tones, they are only sketches but making them helps to develop my palette

The view from the studio progresses

Trying to work on this in the afternoon to repeat the light and conditions,

Sketch for a tree

This no longer exists, as it was the first suggestion of a tree which i later worked up, but I am posting it because I really like the energy and character in these few first lines,

Painting table and a colour chart

The table is a 1950s number with a bit of our kitchen worktop sat on it, I am trying to make these colour charts more often now, and be more methodical about my colours. 

Table ware delivered to the Bay Window Gift Shop in Wilton

 Here are the handpainted designs soon to be available at the Bay Window Gift Shop in Wilton

Dinner plates and side plates fresh from the kiln all my handpainted decoration

A new landscape with some colour notes

The painting wall ,

  a conceptual piece, telling the story of various attempts at representation,....not really

Started a new canvas today , the view from my studio

 Have always overlooked the view from the studio window, with Reeves bakery in the foreground and the trees and Grovely hills beyond...

I think that's it, the portrait is finished

Allowing for the problems of colour differences in photograph, this is the final image, both sitter and I are happy with the result.

The portrait develops

    We have spent five hours now with two hour sittings, and a few half hours, we both seem happy so far with the results, probably a couple of sittings left 

The portrait takes shape

    Some tone and colour goes onto the latest portrait,

A new portrait gets underway

First oil sketch for a new portrait, on board