Time for my annual post looking back at what I’ve done this year! It’s hard to believe it’s the end of 2021 already – it doesn’t seem like long since I made a post for […]
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New Book – Easy Geometric Patterns Colouring Book (Volume 3)
I just finished my sixth and final colouring book for 2021 – an easy version of my latest patterns book! Easy Geometric Patterns (Volume 3) has fifty repeating pattern designs with large spaces that are […]
Pink and Green Easy Pattern Colouring Page
Here’s another coloured page from my book Easy Geometric Patterns (Volume 2). I wasn’t quite sure about the pink and olive green colour combination at first, but it has grown on me. I coloured it […]
Free Printable Geometric Pattern Colouring Page
I recently published my newest colouring book, Geometric Patterns (Volume 3). As with all my books, I’ve made one page (see below) free to download and print out, so you can try before you buy […]
Cone, Pear and Stand – Painting Exercise #14
This is exercise 14 of 20 from Evolve Artist Block 1. I made quite a few mistakes here, although more on the cone and the pear, which weren’t the hardest parts of the painting (that […]
Missing Books on Amazon’s European Sites
If you’ve tried to buy some of my colouring books via Amazon.co.uk, .fr, .de, .it or .es recently, you’ll know that they’re not currently available. This is due to a technical issue on Amazon’s part, […]
Jug, Apple and Cylinder – Painting Exercise #13
Here is another painting exercise that I completed for the Evolve course. This still life jug, apple and cylinder is number 13 of Block 1, and as usual was a bit more complex than the […]
Brown Abstract Painted Spots Pattern
This is another recent repeating pattern that I made in Procreate a few weeks ago. It has warm autumn colours, with loosely drawn circular motifs in orange and cream on a light brown background. You […]
Pear, Cylinder and Pot – Painting Exercise #12
I just finished my next painting exercise for the Evolve course, which is this still life pear, cylinder and pot. This is the second execise with reflections, and it definitely felt a bit harder than […]
Brown and Teal Abstract Mandala Pattern
Here is another of the repeating mandala patterns I made recently, using one of my existing mandala designs. This one is a light brown in colour, with a detailed teal green, orange and white pattern. […]
New Book – Geometric Patterns Colouring Book (Volume 3)
It has been a few months, but I now have a new colouring book! This is another pattern book – the third volume in my Geometric Patterns series. I’ve been on a bit of a […]
Apple, Pot and Ball – Painting Exercise #11
I didn’t have time last week to work on my Evolve exercises, and I missed it. But this week I got back to it and have just finished exercise 11 of Block 1. For this […]
Blue and White Glowing Mandala Pattern
Here is another repeating mandala pattern that I made from an older mandala illustration. This one is blue and white, with a glowing white pattern on a deeper blue background. I always like monochromatic colour […]
Vase and Tape – Painting Exercise #10
I’m now halfway through Block 1 of the Evolve Artist course! I just finished painting #10, which is this vase and tape. The subjects aren’t too exciting, but the point is not to make pretty […]
Purple, Turquoise and Grey Easy Mandala Colouring Page
This is another of my easy mandala colouring pages, this time from my kids’ book, Magic Mandalas. Rather than a solid fill, I coloured it with a simple line pattern using markers, and added a […]
Blue, Pink and White Mandala Pattern
This is another repeating pattern that I made from one of my existing mandala designs. This one has vibrant blue, pink, turquoise and purple lines over a bright white background, and a speckled texture. To […]
Mushroom and Cone – Painting Exercise #9
Here’s another painting finished for Block 1 of the Evolve Artist course. This one was a bit trickier, with gradients in some tight spaces. Each exercise has been slightly more challenging than the last, but […]
Deep Blue and Green Mandala Pattern
This is another repeating mandala pattern that I made from one of my older mandala designs. This one is a deep blue and green in colour, with lighter details. This was the first (usable) mandala […]
Olive Green and Pink Easy Mandala Colouring Page
I coloured this mandala page a few months ago. I wasn’t sure about the colours at first, but it has grown on me. The design is from my kids’ book, Magic Mandalas 2 (which of […]
Bottle and Cubes – Painting Exercise #8
I just finished my eighth painting for the Evolve Artist course. I’m a bit behind schedule, thanks to various stuff getting in the way last week. This one continues with more practice of gradients and […]
Green and Yellow Geometric Mandala Pattern
I always enjoy creating mandala art, and one nice thing about mandalas is that they usually work well as repeating patterns as well as standalone designs. So I’m making seamless patterns from some of my […]
Brown Squiggly Circles Pattern
Now I’m back on a pattern kick, here’s another new one that I made yesterday. This also has warm autumn colours, this time browns, beige and a bit of plum purple and brownish pink. The […]
Green, White, Red and Peach Spots Pattern
I realised the other day that I haven’t made any new patterns this year, other than for my new colouring books. The ones I’ve been posting on here are all older designs. I actually had […]
Purple, Grey and White Abstract Kaleidoscope Colouring Page
This is another coloured page from my fifth colouring book, Through the Kaleidoscope. The illustrations in this book are basically full page abstract mandalas, and you can see them all here. This design is one […]
Vase and Cylinder – Painting Exercise #7
This is the seventh painting for Block 1 of the Evolve Artist course that I started few weeks ago. This exercise continues to practice sharp edges, gradients, and recognising the four basic values. I actually […]
Free Abstract Geometric Pattern Printable Colouring Page
Here is another free colouring page to print at home, this time from my book Geometric Patterns (Volume 2). I’ve been a bit slow to get around to posting about this, as I published the […]
Geometric Shapes – Painting Exercise #6
I finished the next exercise for the art course I began recently. And I really screwed this one up! It’s not as obvious in this photo as in the actual painting, but I badly messed […]
Brown, Orange and Yellow Simple Mandala Colouring Page
This is another easy mandala design, this time from my second kids’ book, Magic Mandalas 2. I coloured it a bit differently than normal, creating a thin line and stipple fill with Staedtler Triplus fine […]
Sphere – Painting Exercise #5
I just finished another assignment for the art course I’m doing. This is exercise five from Block 1, and is a simple greyscale sphere. It’s painted in oil on canvas, and it’s safe to say […]
Free Easy Giraffe Colouring Page for Kids
Here is another free printable colouring page, taken from my newest colouring book, Very Easy Animal Faces Colouring Book for Toddlers and Young Kids. It features a cute giraffe face, with strong lines and large […]