Learning Activities

Watercolour abstract painting using a silhouette of Her Majesty and filling with colourful flowers for the Jubilee celebrations , enjoy. 

This would have been about 1930, I think. A drypoint etching with coloured pencil.

I used my previous flowery painting as a background, and by using a digital drawing tool changed it to black and white, and then added the Platinum Jubilee colours and texts over it. I thought that the shapes of the flowers look a bit like crowns!

Nobody more Royal than the KING of Rock n Roll. In charcoal and pencil. Will always be the KING. 

Everyone can recognize the red vans and letter boxes.  I used watercolours for this early evening view.

The Palace Theatre opened in London in 1891 as the Royal English Opera House and was later converted into a very successful theatre. it has an interesting history with a huge variety of productions.

I thought that this was a very happy pose of the Queen and wanted to use watercolours to bring out her best features and give her a softer look.

Inspired by Knutsford Royal May Day celebrations. 

My red white and blue done in acrylics with a piece of kitchen roll swipe.

Red marker pen on sketching paper

The inspiration of this watercolour painting of the Queen, albeit not a great likeness, was to celebrate her extraordinary reign and her Platinum Jubilee year. She has travelled more widely than any other monarch. I admire her sense of duty and her devotion to a life of service over many years of social change. Her patronage to several hundred charities is astonishing. She reminds me of what is important in life and I am proud of all she has achieved over her long reign. 

I painted this after a visit to this magical place. The ruins of a Cistercian Abbey second only in importance to St Davids in the middle ages . All the last Welsh Princes of Wales are buried here. The Buddleia, bottom left is called - buddleia Davidii "Royal red" Painted in oils.

This is my painting of Windsor Castle from a different angle.