Artiste Botanique
Hello friends, The SBA London exhibition is coming at the Mall Galleries! The preview is next Tuesday and then it goes on until Sunday. I have 3 paintings in there: the Dahlia I am using as a heading for my website (above), a big red poppy (also above, heading this post) and a quince from… Continue reading SBA London exhibition 2019
The tickets for my botanical fruit painting workshop at the Mall galleries in London on Saturday 31st of August are now available and the booking system is up and running. It's £100 for the day or £90 if you are a friend of the galleries. Please click here for details and booking on the Mall… Continue reading London Mall Galleries workshop tickets for sale
Hello everyone, I already wrote about the difference between transparent and opaque colours in a blog post here. This time I am taking it one step further: why do transparent pigments sometimes make opaque paints? 1- Transparent/opaque To recap the previous post, transparent pigments let the light through their layer to hit the paper and… Continue reading Transparent vs. opaque and why transparent pigments can turn into opaque paints
Good stormy, rainy morning! I made a new video about the 'Neptune'. It shows the road test in different conditions. As well as seeing the brush performance it gives you a chance to see me demonstrate wet-in-wet and pretty extreme dry brush techniques, while painting a quince and some blackbirds. I really put that brush… Continue reading New video: testing the synthetic squirrel brush ‘Neptune’
I love tea towels! Every time I visit a beautiful garden or a donkey sanctuary, I come back home with a new one... So I had some printed with my designs: fruit, vegetables, flowers, leaves... and a snow hare. They are made of a cotton & linen blend and printed all over, from a pesticide-free… Continue reading Tea towels in my Etsy shop
Sandrine Maugy 