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Marking a significant day at Unison Colour, on what would have been the 100th Birthday of John Hersey - the man behind our Soft Pastels! 🎂 To celebrate, we’re offering a 10% discount on the limited Centenary Sets, running until 2nd July. But that's not all... We also have a brand new set of 18…
If you can get one to be still long enough chooks make great subject matter. They’re self-contained vivid balls of colour and they have personalities. Chook eyes can convey a wide variety of emotions; fear, aggression, possibly even love.
After being blown away and rained off at Neist Point, we headed back inland to Portree, the capital of Skye and its largest town, visited each year by many tourists, as well as artists and photographers.
A number of the Unison Colour Associate Artists had pieces that were featured in the exhibition and most were able to attend the Private View, the evening before it opened to the public.
I’m often asked how I create a mood in my landscape paintings. Sometimes it’s simply about leaning into the atmosphere of a place. Sometimes it happens with the way I utilize edges.
Watch me battle with the elements to create a mixed media painting, starting with an underpainting using acrylic inks on watercolour paper, before driving rain and wind took over!
I love using pastels to draw and paint horses, they are the perfect medium for conveying their textures, from the shine of the eye to the long hair of the mane, but also for capturing movement, life and energy. If you would like to join me and find out more about my process for capturing…
The Fairy Pools are a popular landmark on Skye, being a series of clear natural pools and waterfalls below the Cuillin mountains.
In this series I have invited some of Unison Colour's very talented Associate Artists to choose 5 of their pieces and then to write a little about them and how the pieces relate to them as artists.
This landscape is like being in another world. The bleakness of the moors, devoid of trees, but with rocks, rivers and mountains, all apparently strategically placed for the benefit of artists and photographers.
I have often likened painting to music with its high notes and bright colours, deep bass notes like deep rich, dark colours and tinkling bells for a splatter of light.
See me painting at Sligachan on the Isle of Skye with Unison Colour pastels, seeking to capture the beauty of the landscape at Sligachan.
