David Bellamy – Visualising your painting
Recently I received an interesting email asking how to develop an artist’s ‘mindsight,’ or visualisation in constructing a painting. This is more than just assembling the various parts of a...
View ArticleDavid Bellamy – Enhance your watercolour landscapes with simple cloud effects
I’ve just returned from running a sketch & walk course in the Lake District with a lovely group of students, where the biggest problem was a lack of water! This is something which is rarely...
View ArticleDavid Bellamy – Painting in hot weather
We’ve had intense heat here in Wales now for weeks, and the landscape is starting to resemble a desert in places. For the landscape artist it’s an interesting time, and strangely our skies have not...
View ArticleDavid Bellamy – Seeking out a rural lane to paint
I have a great affection for rural lanes, especially old rutted cart-tracks. While they are superb for leading you into a composition they are also excellent subjects in their own right. When I plan a...
View ArticleDavid Bellamy – The Rain in Spain is…….Awesome!
We’ve just returned from Spain where we ran a group painting holiday in the lovely old Andalucian town of Ronda, based in a hotel right on the edge of those sheer cliffs. It was brilliantly organised...
View ArticleJenny Keal – New Edition of my Pastel book
I am delighted to announce that my book “Painting with Pastels” which had been out of print for a few months has now been re-issued in a new edition entitled “Start to Paint with Pastels“. Painting...
View ArticleDavid Bellamy – Bella Italia! Wales descends into a pit of hell
Finishing off my Seas & Shorelines book, a hiking trip to northern Italy, and a host of demonstrations, workshops and other items has left me little time to write blogs of late. I know some folk...
View ArticleDavid Bellamy – The Battle for Llandegley Rhos
When I visited Llandegley Common to see the extent of the construction of the wind turbines I carried out some sketching, especially those delightful corners, as well as the beautiful panoramas of this...
View ArticleDavid Bellamy – Manning the barricades…..with a 3B pencil
Here in Mid-Wales it’s been a really gloomy start to the new year, and that’s not just the weather – confrontations at Llandegley between many protesters and the wind-turbine developers escalated...
View ArticleDavid Bellamy – Taking a painting break
There are so many times these days when I just want to get off this mad conveyor-belt of constant action, and be back in the wilds, away from phones, the internet and all the trappings of 21st-century...
View ArticleDavid Bellamy – Painting around the New Forest
I now have a number of paintings on display at Beaulieu Fine Arts, an excellent gallery with several rooms full of exciting and varied art. It’s a delightful spot to visit as you can also spend time...
View ArticleDavid Bellamy – Painting Wild Serengeti
I will be giving a talk and demonstration at The Galtres Centre, in the Market Place at Easingwold on Friday 26th April, and you are welcome to come and have a chat. The theme will be “Wild Serengeti”...
View ArticleDavid Bellamy – Creating misty landscapes
We are blessed with so many stunning river and stream subjects of great variety in the UK, and whatever the weather may throw at us there is something truly pleasurable to sit beside a bubbling brook...
View ArticleDavid Bellamy – Painting Seas & Shorelines in Watercolour
Making life easy for ourselves isn’t really the done thing in painting – we do love striving to find the most complicated and difficult way of producing a painting. In my new book, David Bellamy’s Seas...
View ArticleDavid Bellamy – Painting the haunting calm of an estuary
I love exploring quiet estuaries, well away from the hubub of modern life, where all you may hear is the haunting cry of the occasional curlew, and to sit sketching the scene as twilight begins can be...
View ArticleDavid Bellamy – Greys in watercolour landscapes
For the landscape painter grey is an extremely useful colour, often to set the mood, or equally importantly to provide a passage of quiet dullness that can be vital to make those exciting vibrant and...
View ArticleDavid Bellamy – Thrashing around for a sketch
The recent Patchings Art Festival in Nottinghamshire was something of a whirlwind for us, with almost non-stop activity on our stand, and interest in my new book, Seas & Shorelines was astonishing....
View ArticleDavid Bellamy – Liberate your painting with scraps of paper
I often find that when I’m testing a wash or new colour on a scrap of watercolour paper that I produce some marvellous results, yet when I try to repeat the exercise in a proper painting it often falls...
View ArticleDavid Bellamy – With watercolours to Austria
September was another of those all-action months where there was no time to write blogs: sadly there are many things happening which I simply don’t have time to relate. On 14th September I had one of...
View ArticleDavid Bellamy – BRINGING WARMTH INTO YOUR SNOW LANDSCAPES
I’ve just returned home from doing some staged paintings in the studios at Search Press. They are aimed at the next book which is about landscapes through the seasons. More on that before long. It’s...
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