Tag: Ham Lands

  • Darling Buds of May – Flower Studies

    Darling Buds of May – Flower Studies

    Over the last few years I’ve been forcing myself to do more flower studies. Like buildings, flowers are not something I come to naturally, but they appear in the foreground of my landscapes so I needed to be better at depicting them. (Unlike people who also rarely appear in my plein air work, a landscape…

  • All The Hams

    All The Hams

    There are a lot of Hams around here. I know from my History GCSE it probably means ‘clearing by a river’ and all these are by the River Thames. First one is fountain pen drawing of Ham House through the fence and it’s just a cheap way of drawing the statue in situ. I’m not…

  • Hampstead Heath oil

    Hampstead Heath oil

    A few weeks ago I took a trip upto my old stomping ground Hampstead Heath, and especially the West Heath. I made a special trip to work on the second oil of my Hidden Histories series (although it crosses over into my (Dead) Trees series as well, as tree portrait) the first being the landscape…

  • Ham Lands Oil

    Ham Lands Oil

    On a sunny afternoon I headed to Ham Lands, ostensibly to paint watercolours but when I got there I decided to paint the sixth plein air oil. Wasn’t completely a good decision if I wanted to do anything else *ahem* as covered in oil paint I’m not exactly friendly but hardly anyone was there, not…