5 August 2025
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One of the parts of my job is labelling the storage shelves that different categories of laptops are put on. This helps, for example, to quickly identify an upgraded laptop that someone has come back to collect or to find … Continue reading
19 September 2020
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I don’t like to waste paper so printing handouts for a meeting is not my favourite task. If you know how many people are coming, it’s easy. If you don’t, you have to guess and risk running out or having … Continue reading
7 June 2020
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While I was painting this, I did have a landscape idea in mind and, if you rotate anti-clockwise, it is easy to read sky, trees, etc. However, it was really just playing around with the watercolour paper, which arrived today, … Continue reading
6 June 2020
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There’s an old blues song called Nobody’s Fault But Mine. Originally it came from Blind Willie Johnson in 1927 (and not Led Zeppelin in 1976) and the theme is that, if you don’t read your Bible, it’s your own fault … Continue reading
14 June 2019
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Last week I didn’t get to do a huge amount of creative work on my regular Friday off because I popped into work for a meeting. However, I did come home via Hobbycraft, picking up some materials for the anatomy … Continue reading
20 April 2019
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On the Meet-up walk I went on a couple of weeks ago, I took my sketchbook. Of the four drawings I did, three were pretty scrappy but I was quite pleased with this one, of an old beech tree: It … Continue reading
24 June 2018
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I did today’s watercolour painting quite early this morning but I’m only just getting around to posting it: This was a very quick sketch using colours on my palette and entirely inappropriate paper for the medium. Watercolourists tend to go … Continue reading
11 October 2017
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Even though the paper I bought the other day is heavier than what I had previously been working on, it still buckles to some extent when loaded with water. Therefore, I need to learn the art of stretching my paper. … Continue reading
8 October 2017
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I’ve been messing around with watercolours a reasonable amount since doing the summer school course on them but mainly using bits of paper I had lying around. Yesterday I decided that it was time to get some proper watercolour paper … Continue reading