
A Moodie Skye Part 5 – Neist Point
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!
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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.

Announcing the exclusive ‘Centenary Sets’; an extremely special range of pastel sets consisting of archived colours no longer in our range - remnants of Unison Colour’s long and colourful history. Some of these pastels were quite possibly crafted by John himself. Despite their age, they are as vivid in colour and as soft to the…

This was my first painting on my trip to Skye. The morning was gusty and cold but down by the side of the Loch the winds were more gentle.

This year is a very special year for Unison Colour. On the 25th of June, we will be celebrating what would have been the 100th birthday of our founder, John Hersey. To celebrate, we will be launching two brand new pastel sets as well as announcing plenty of opportunities for our artist community to partake…

How about a Springtime Challenge? Well, we've got exactly that with our upcoming 5 Day Pastel Challenge, with Robert Dutton! It doesn’t matter if you are a seasoned pastelist or a complete beginner... This 5 day challenge will be more than an introduction to pastels, and teach you skills to move forward with confidence with…

Being elected a member of The Pastel Society has been a long held dream and the result of a lot of hard work over several years. It is a huge honour and I am very excited for what lies ahead.