Anyone who follows me on my social media platforms will have seen that recently I have been producing some new work. Mostly depicting the Lakeland Fells, this new work is now available to purchase. These images are mostly the profile sketches of various fells which are being produced as part…
Great Gable- 5″x7″ sketch Is there a more majestic Wainwright fell than the mighty Great Gable? I don’t think so. These were the thoughts going through my head in the past couple of days as I was working on a new small pen and watercolour sketch of said fell. Last…
Andy produces a pencil drawing of the famous guidebook writer, Alfred Wainwright. UPDATE 12/2/23: Due to requests and the response to this work on this website and across social media I have decided to release a Limited Edition print of this drawing. There will only be 75 copies printed and…
Holidays and Birthday over, time to get back to work. Amazing to think that 35 years ago today (5th January 1988) was my first day as a civilian after leaving the RAF Regiment. I had plans that from that day I would be a full time professional artist. The intervening…
A new film now on my You Tube channel. This new film may be of interest to anyone who is either new to watercolour painting or just struggles to get clean, fresh colours in their paintings. I take a step by step approach to making one of these useful charts…
A chance to re-learn old skills. Over the summer months whilst attending the many shows and events I have had time to reflect on my skills as an artist. Ideas and inspiration has never been something that I have been short of, in fact one of my big problems is…
A look at my sketching paintbox. Those that have been watching my Youtube videos or other social media posts may have spotted me using a small and compact painting kit whilst out and about. Several viewers have asked me about it. So in response to that I have just posted…
Making a swatch chart for watercolours This is one of those tasks which helps to not only be more organised in the studio but it is also quite fun to do. Any artist can do it and making a simple chart such as this can inspire the use of new…
Artwork sketchbook August 2020 The weather has been quite good during the month of August so I took the opportunity to get out and practice my plein air sketching. Nearly all of these pages were produced in the one book. It was a 5″ x 7″ spiral bound book which…
The results are in! Many thanks to everyone who took part in the 2020 Lakeland Christmas Quiz. I considered that giving the quiz a theme of Wainwright Rocks would have made it a bit more interesting/challenging than just a simple “guess the fell” type of quiz. It seems that the…
