Indigo Blah

Walking the dogs every day I see so many scenes I'd love to paint.  This shady gap through a hedge offered a good view of a wheatfield...

My youngest grandson and I walked over the fields to the canal with sketchbooks and drawing gear earlier this week.  We've been having...

 I do love painting outdoors.  It's an art making experience like no other; a real challenge that's different every time, one I...

Storm Clouds Over Wheat Field 5x7in plein air oil painting on board, unframed. One look at those clouds put some urgency into the brushw...

Summer Flower Garden - 5x7in plein air painting, acrylic on board. The weather was very kind to me when I set up my easel to paint t...

Seascape sunset with boats at rest I'd no idea where this painting was going when I started.  I began with a mix of phthalo blue, ca...

Autumn - looking over fields to lane. Looking across the fields the tree branches looked quite wintery now most of the foliage has blo...

Big Sky 1 It's difficult not to be impressed by the big skies and countryside outside my window here in middle England.  Constantly ...

Winter Trees by Bee Skelton  My new garden is full of painterly inspiration!  The bare branches are quite sculptural and make wonderfull...

Work in progress 1   Working outdoors near where I made recent drawings. I'm looking down from near the top of a mo...

I've been working outdoors drawing the Cyprus landscape http://indigoblah.blogspot.com

Fruit Trees Oil on canvas I've been dodging rain for a few days and finally completed this painting outdoors in the bottom gard...

Today I waited until there was a big fat shadow under the palm tree before making this drawing in the bottom garden.  The grapevine growin...

Today I'm drawing looking down onto part of the bottom garden from the terrace.  The viewpoint shows up some nice patterns as the dark...

This is the first of a series of garden drawings that I'll make in my sketchbook in preparation for a painting.  I have no idea of the...

Down the Valley to the Sea Fortunately the temperature here in Cyprus has come down a little this week, so that I can work more easily ...

I decided to make a painting based on this sketch, which is part of the view I see each morning from the bedroom window.                    ...

  I've just finished the above painting, which began in my sketchbook as a small pen and ink drawing.  From there I made a tonal drawin...

  SOLD We had a beautiful spring day here yesterday; the grasses and wild plants on the mountain are still lush from the winter rains, and ...

Algonquin Park must be one of the most beautiful places on earth. When a client recently commissioned me to paint this landscape, I jumped ...