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Wildflower families: Orchidaceae

By |January 4th, 2026|Syndicated Content|

Wildflower families: Orchidaceae, the Orchid family is the last in my series of [...]

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Guide to Urban Plants of Scotland illustrations

By |December 12th, 2025|Syndicated Content|

I recently illustrated the FSC’s Wild ID Guide to Urban plants of Scotland [...]

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Wildflower families: Asteraceae

By |November 27th, 2025|Syndicated Content|

Wildflower families: Asteraceae, the Daisy family is one in a series of blogs [...]

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Grasses of Montserrat and the Eastern Caribbean

By |November 5th, 2025|Syndicated Content|

I was recently commissioned to illustrate some common grasses of Montserrat and the [...]

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Wildflower families: Lamiaceae

By |October 9th, 2025|Syndicated Content|

Wildflower families: Lamiaceae, the Dead-nettle family is the latest in my series of [...]

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Wildflower seed mix – Packet design

By |September 5th, 2025|Syndicated Content|

This wildflower seed mix packet design is a recent illustration completed for Roselyn [...]

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Pribby: A Montserrat endemic

By |August 15th, 2025|Syndicated Content|

Pribby Rondeletia buxifolia (sometimes called Pribbery) is a member of the coffee family. [...]

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Wildflower families: Apiaceae

By |August 6th, 2025|Syndicated Content|

Wildflower families: Apiaceae, the Carrot family is my latest blog in this series [...]

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Wildflower families: Plantaginaceae

By |June 6th, 2025|Syndicated Content|

Wildflower families: Plantaginaceae, the Plantain family is my latest blog in this series [...]

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Medicinal plants of Montserrat – Illustrations vs Reality

By |May 23rd, 2025|Syndicated Content|

As a result of having illustrated 30 medicinal plants of Montserrat for a [...]

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Wildflower families: Fabaceae, the Pea family

By |April 12th, 2025|Syndicated Content|

Wildflower families: Fabaceae, the Pea family is my latest blog in this series [...]

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Montserrat: A Model Garden

By |March 28th, 2025|Syndicated Content|

Montserrat: A Model garden Some months ago I worked on a diagram of [...]

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Montserrat – Working in Paradise

By |March 7th, 2025|Syndicated Content|

Montserrat is a beautiful, small island in the Caribbean.  I was lucky enough [...]

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Rosaceae Fruit

By |February 7th, 2025|Syndicated Content|

Rosaceae Fruit Whilst recently researching the wildflower families, I fell down a fruit-shaped [...]

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Wildflower families: Rosaceae, the Rose family

By |January 10th, 2025|Syndicated Content|

Wildflower families: Rosaceae, the Rose family is the latest blog in a series [...]

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Wildflower families: Brassicaceae, the Cabbage family

By |December 20th, 2024|Syndicated Content|

Wildflower families: Brassicaceae, the Cabbage family is another blog I’m writing in a [...]

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Autumn fruits

By |November 24th, 2024|Syndicated Content|

Autumn fruits is a recent project I’ve worked on with the Field Studies [...]

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Wildflower families: Caryophyllaceae, the Campion family

By |November 8th, 2024|Syndicated Content|

Wildflower families: Caryophyllaceae, the Campion family is another of the blogs I’m writing [...]

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Water violet Step by Step

By |October 25th, 2024|Syndicated Content|

Water violet step by step explains the stages involved in illustrating the aquatic [...]

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A Visit to Cranfield Paint Factory

By |October 11th, 2024|Syndicated Content|

Visting the Cranfield paint factory was an absolute treat – the perfect combination [...]

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Wildflower families: Ranunculaceae, the Buttercups

By |September 20th, 2024|Syndicated Content|

Wildflower families: Ranunculaceae, the Buttercups is the first of a series of blogs [...]

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Trees: Horse chestnut Aesculus hippocastanum

By |July 27th, 2024|Syndicated Content|

Trees: Horse chestnut is one of a series of blogs I’m writing on [...]

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Unearthing the Enigma: Japanese Knotweed’s Unstoppable March

By |July 5th, 2024|Syndicated Content|

Unearthing the Enigma: Japanese Knotweed’s unstoppable march is a guest blog written by Matt [...]

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Red Deer stag step by step

By |June 14th, 2024|Syndicated Content|

It’s been a while since I did an animal step by step blog, [...]

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British Thrush Species

By |May 24th, 2024|Syndicated Content|

There are six species of thrush regularly seen in Britain.  Some are year [...]

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Flower shapes: Symbolism & Cultural significance

By |March 25th, 2024|Syndicated Content|

Flower Shapes: Symbolism and Cultural Significance guest blog by Nina James Summer Flower [...]

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Paul Reubens Artist level Youlan series Watercolour box: Review

By |March 17th, 2024|Syndicated Content|

Paul Rubens artist level YouLan series of solid watercolours is a set of [...]

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Spotted fish

By |March 15th, 2024|Syndicated Content|

Spotted fish is another of my blogs on patterns in nature.  You can [...]

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Trees: Scots pine Pinus sylvestris

By |February 9th, 2024|Syndicated Content|

Scots Pine Pinus sylvestris   Scots pine is one of a series of [...]

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Watercolour paints: Inside my paint box

By |December 1st, 2023|Syndicated Content|

Watercolour paint choice is very personal, and everyone will have their own favourite [...]

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Trees: Small-leaved lime or Linden

By |November 17th, 2023|Syndicated Content|

Small-leaved lime Tilia cordata and other Lime or Linden trees   This is [...]

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Geranium Variegated Leaf Step by Step

By |November 16th, 2023|Syndicated Content|

Geranium Variegated leaf step by step I love geraniums, and am especially fond [...]

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Potatoes

By |October 5th, 2023|Syndicated Content|

Potatoes are ubiquitous vegetables, a staple in the west since their introduction from [...]

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Patterns in Nature: A quick overview

By |September 8th, 2023|Syndicated Content|

Introducing patterns One of the things in nature which is worth taking a [...]

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Variegation: Patterns on leaves

By |September 8th, 2023|Syndicated Content|

What is Variegation? Many of the patterns you see on plant leaves, especially [...]

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Striped Patterns in Nature

By |September 8th, 2023|Syndicated Content|

Stripes Stripes are seen across the animal and plant kingdoms.  Although the first [...]

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Sand hill Screwmoss: An illustration challenge

By |September 8th, 2023|Syndicated Content|

Sand hill Screwmoss Syntrichia ruraliformis ruraliformis is one of the species completed for [...]

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Great Burnet Step by Step

By |August 24th, 2023|Syndicated Content|

Recently, I’ve illustrated the Great Burnet, Sanguisorba officinalis for an interpretation board, to [...]

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Common Grass species identification: Some easy shortcuts

By |July 14th, 2023|Syndicated Content|

As you may have noticed, I’m rather obsessed with grasses, and have blogged [...]

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Wildflowers of Braunton Burrows

By |June 15th, 2023|Syndicated Content|

A recent commission involved illustrating 30 species for Braunton Burrows, a very beautiful [...]

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Comparing Synthetic Watercolour Brushes – Part 5 (the final episode!)

By |June 13th, 2023|Syndicated Content|

This is the fifth and final of my blogs and linked films, looking [...]

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Comparing Synthetic Watercolour Brushes – Part 4

By |May 8th, 2023|Syndicated Content|

Comparing Synthetic Watercolour Brushes – Part 4 is the fourth of my blogs [...]

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Orchid Botanical Illustration Step by step

By |May 5th, 2023|Syndicated Content|

Orchids have always been a bit of a mystery to me, so when [...]

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Comparing Synthetic watercolour brushes Part 3

By |May 1st, 2023|Syndicated Content|

This is the third of my blogs (and films, the one specific to [...]

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Mosquito life cycle – illustrating the Anopholes mosquito

By |April 21st, 2023|Syndicated Content|

Introducing the African Malaria mosquito, Anopheles gambiae The mosquito is one of the [...]

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Illustrating the Cannock Chase Berry Vaccinium intermedium

By |April 8th, 2023|Syndicated Content|

Cannock Chase Berry Vaccinium x intermedium is a really tricky subject to illustrate, [...]

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The Bad Garden

By |February 14th, 2023|Syndicated Content|

The non eco-garden is a companion blog to my earlier one, explaining and [...]

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Good Garden: A wildlife Haven

By |February 14th, 2023|Syndicated Content|

Illustrating a wildlife garden is always a challenge, but something I embrace.  Not [...]

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Carbon Cycle: A Complicated Illustration

By |February 14th, 2023|Syndicated Content|

When I was asked to “illustrate the Carbon cycle” for a brochure on [...]

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Fungal treats at Cusop Churchyard

By |February 3rd, 2023|Syndicated Content|

Fungal subjects always make my heart sing, so I was really pleased when [...]

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Spotted Flycatcher step by step

By |January 24th, 2023|Syndicated Content|

Spotted Flycatchers Muscicapa striata are lovely birds, often overlooked because of their seemingly [...]

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Trees: Birch

By |January 20th, 2023|Syndicated Content|

Birch trees: The Silver and the Downy Birch   There are two main [...]

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Bird’s-foot Trefoil: An Excellent Plant

By |January 4th, 2023|Syndicated Content|

Bird’s-foot Trefoil: Where to find it?   This blog is in praise of [...]

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Plant Evolution: A brief overview

By |November 25th, 2022|Syndicated Content|

Plant Evolution is complicated, and in this blog I plan on simplifying it [...]

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Beatrix Potter: Illustrator and Inspiration

By |November 11th, 2022|Syndicated Content|

Beatrix Potter is known to people the world over as the creator of [...]

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Trees: Beech

By |October 21st, 2022|Syndicated Content|

Introduction Beech trees are common across Britain, favouring chalky soils.  The oldest Beech [...]

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Natural History Illustration and Life Long Learning: The Field Studies Council

By |October 19th, 2022|Syndicated Content|

Natural History Illustration and Life-long learning: Field Studies Council Courses is my blog [...]

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Flowers of Montserrat: Botanical illustration

By |October 7th, 2022|Syndicated Content|

Montserrat is an island in the Carribbean, part of the Leeward isles and [...]

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Illustrating Yellow flowers: Five approaches

By |September 9th, 2022|Syndicated Content|

Botanical illustrations of yellow flowers can be really challenging.  As you try to [...]

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Ants in the UK: Four subfamilies

By |August 26th, 2022|Syndicated Content|

Having recently written a blog on the anatomy of ants, and been on [...]

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Rocky shore ecosystem illustration

By |July 31st, 2022|Syndicated Content|

Rocky shore ecosystem: a lucky break   I recently illustrated The Hidden Universe [...]

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The Brecknockshire Flora

By |July 27th, 2022|Syndicated Content|

The Brecknockshire flora is written by John Crellin and Mike Porter, and is [...]

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Monocot and Eudicot variety: Illustrations

By |July 27th, 2022|Syndicated Content|

Monocots and Eudicots are enormous groups, making up over 80% of plants on [...]

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Sedges, Grasses and Rushes: Telling the families apart

By |July 1st, 2022|Syndicated Content|

I recently went on another excellent FSC course, this time on identifying grasses [...]

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Ant anatomy for Beginners

By |June 13th, 2022|Syndicated Content|

I’ve recently gone on a couple of fabulous courses with Field Studies Council [...]

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Hay Festival Mug Design

By |June 3rd, 2022|Syndicated Content|

Hay Festival approached me early in the year, to see if I could [...]

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Trees: Yew

By |May 11th, 2022|Syndicated Content|

Trees: Yew is another blog inspired by my illustrations for The Tree Forager [...]

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Geraniums, Crane’s-bills and Stork’s-bills

By |May 6th, 2022|Syndicated Content|

Geraniums, Crane’s-bills and Stork’s-bills is a guest blog from the wonderful Stewart Roberts, a [...]

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The Hidden Universe: Pen and Ink Illustrations

By |April 22nd, 2022|Syndicated Content|

The Hidden Universe by Alexandre Antonelli is a short and powerful book.  I [...]

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Paintbrushes: Exploring synthetics Part 2

By |March 29th, 2022|Syndicated Content|

This blog is a follow up to one I wrote a while ago [...]

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Trees: Elder

By |March 18th, 2022|Syndicated Content|

Trees: Elder is another blog inspired by my illustrations for “The Tree Forager” [...]

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Buzzards, Kites and Kestrels

By |March 4th, 2022|Syndicated Content|

Buzzards, kites, and kestrels in a guest blog from a naturalist who lives [...]

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The Treeline – Book Illustrations

By |February 4th, 2022|Syndicated Content|

The Treeline: The last forest and the future of life on earth by [...]

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Nature Notebook & The Family Tree

By |January 21st, 2022|Syndicated Content|

Nature notebooks seem to have run in my family for a long time.  [...]

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Heath Star Moss Sketchbook study

By |January 7th, 2022|Syndicated Content|

Heath star moss is one of three invasive species I’ve just illustrated for [...]

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Step by step illustration of a Robin

By |December 24th, 2021|Syndicated Content|

Step by step blogs can be tricky to write – I often don’t [...]

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Holly: History, Folklore & Wales

By |December 10th, 2021|Syndicated Content|

Holly: History & Folklore is a guest blog from the wonderful Stewart Roberts, [...]

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Habit sketch of Cow parsley: step by step

By |November 26th, 2021|Syndicated Content|

Habit sketches are an important aspect of doing botanical illustrations.  They need to [...]

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Cow Parsley: All about an Umbellifer

By |November 12th, 2021|Syndicated Content|

Cow parsley Anthriscus sylvestris was on the list of plants I recently illustrated [...]

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Cannock Chase Museum: Exploring botany

By |October 30th, 2021|Syndicated Content|

Cannock Chase Museum: Botany Cannock Chase museum was our destination on a recent [...]

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Blueberry: step by step Pen and Ink illustration

By |October 15th, 2021|Syndicated Content|

I recently completed a blueberry illustration for a packaging job, and thought it’d [...]

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Trees: Rowan

By |October 1st, 2021|Syndicated Content|

Trees: Rowan is another blog inspired by my illustrations for “The Tree Forager” [...]

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Equipment: Paintbrushes

By |September 10th, 2021|Syndicated Content|

Equipment: Paintbrushes is another in the series about what tools I use when [...]

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Illustrations for “30 animals that made us smarter”

By |August 26th, 2021|Syndicated Content|

A recent commission saw me completing pen and ink illustrations for “30 animals [...]

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Illustrating Bracken and Ferns

By |August 5th, 2021|Syndicated Content|

Illustrating bracken and ferns may seem to be a really difficult job.  However, [...]

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Wood Ants: Illustrating a guide to the wood ants of the Cairngorms

By |July 22nd, 2021|Syndicated Content|

Earlier this year, I had one of the hardest and most wonderful jobs.  [...]

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Step by step Downy Birch leaves

By |July 9th, 2021|Syndicated Content|

This blog shows how to  ink up the Downy Birch leaves and catkins, [...]

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Trees: Hawthorn

By |June 25th, 2021|Syndicated Content|

Trees: Hawthorn is another blog inspired by my illustrations for “The Tree Forager” [...]

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The Gwent Levels: Botanical illustrations

By |June 11th, 2021|Syndicated Content|

The Gwent levels are a fascinating corner of Wales, tucked between Cardiff and [...]

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Equipment: Magnifiers and scalpels

By |May 21st, 2021|Syndicated Content|

In Equipment: Magnifiers and scalpels, I won’t only be looking at these two [...]

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Chequered Skipper Butterfly Illustration

By |May 6th, 2021|Syndicated Content|

Chequered skipper butterflies used to be comparatively common in England, but became extinct [...]

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Trees: Ash

By |April 2nd, 2021|Syndicated Content|

Trees: Ash This is the third in my series on common trees, and [...]

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Equipment: Pencils & Erasers

By |March 19th, 2021|Syndicated Content|

This is another blog in the series on equipment used.  Check out earlier [...]

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A Life on Our Planet – Working with Sir David Attenborough

By |March 5th, 2021|Syndicated Content|

A Life on Our Planet, David Attenborough’s recent book, is extremely important.  In [...]

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Equipment: Paints

By |February 19th, 2021|Syndicated Content|

Equipment: Paints is another in my series about materials and equipment used for [...]

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Trees: Sycamore

By |January 22nd, 2021|Syndicated Content|

Trees: Sycamore Acer pseudoplatanus is a maple, and is Europe’s largest maple species.  [...]

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Trees: English Oak

By |January 8th, 2021|Syndicated Content|

I’ve been working on illustrations for “The Tree Forager” by Adele Nozedar, due [...]

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Equipment: How to Choose a Waterproof Pen and Ink for Watercolour

By |December 23rd, 2020|Syndicated Content|

Equipment: How to Choose a Waterproof Pen and Ink for Watercolour is a [...]

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