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Over the last 3 years I have been painting a series called God's Own. They were very much inspired by the beautiful Yorkshire landscape with rolling green hills and dark brooding skies. Most of them were painted with oil on canvas and the largest being 1m x 1m.

I tend to use oil and pigment sticks when I'm starting a painting to get some initial marks down on the paper but they can also be used to work into a painting. The painting does need to be somewhat dry in order to transfer your marks and ensure you are not just moving paint about.

When I first approach April at the Craft House in Saltaire last year about running some workshops with her neither of us anticipated how popular they would be.  We are now fully booked until June 2019 and have recently launched some new dates to take us up to the end of 2019!

I have been using Arches Huille paper since I first started using oil and cold wax and I love it!  But I really wanted to scale up and see what could be achieved on a larger scale using the paper and oil and cold wax.  The valley trembles is my first large scale painting using oil and cold wax on paper.

So I've bought a new gadget which means I can literally hang my phone from anything and set it up to film a painting in progress.  And this is what I did this weekend and as it is time lapsed you can see me paint one of my larger paintings in just a few seconds.  It does take me just a little b...

Last week I spent a whole afternoon adding some beautiful new colours to my stock of transfer papers.  Transfer papers allow me to make sketch type marks on my paintings and is basically a pigment rich version of carbon copy paper for those of you who can remember what that is!  This version use...