My Watercolours

Some time ago I taught myself to paint watercolours (to a fashion), with the help of videos and books by Alwyn Crawshaw and some Daler Rowney artists paints. They're never going to be in a real gallery, so I thought I would hang them in my own virtual gallery on the web!
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This was my first painting that I kept in the portfolio. A copy of an Alwyn Crawshaw. It was painted in Rowney Student Quality paint, so the reflections have faded so the sea looks like milk!
Good old mum hung it in her house for quite a few years in full daylight. I was about 40 at the time!

Also taken from an Alwyn Crawshaw book, I painted several of these and gave some away to friends and t charity shops. Very cheap to paint as most of it is blank paper! Subtle use of purple shadows makes the snow feel cold.

Another Crawshaw exercise. "After the Rain" I did two of these - one is in the USA now (I hope my friend didn't throw it away!)

Wells next the Sea - the quay. This view is very popular with artists - I took the inspiration from James Fletcher-Watson another of my favourite artists but I took my own photos and painted from them.

This one was stolen from a Broads leaflet I found in an old book shop. I did several of these for charity shops - they gave me the frames and I painted some pictures and mounted them for resale. I think they fetched more than the empty frames, but I was never sure.

This is the "Old Mo" at Sheringham before they rebuilt it as a super sewage station. The Old Mo was a sort of bandstand cum open air theatre. Now it pumps poo instead.

Another Alwyn Crawshaw exercise - this is Hound Tor in the west country. It was painted for a green bedroom and was mounted in a pale green frame on dark green border for quite a few years.


This was a christmas card I sent mum and dad. They asked me to mount it as a miniature and it sat on their wall for 10 years in leicester. Windrush Mill - thanks to James Fletcher-Watson for the inspiration


One of my favourites - this is the finished version of a sketch in East Runton, Norfolk, and i confess it hung in my own office for 10 years. It was one of a very few paintings that I didn't copy from a real artist!