Manchester Cathedral

Went to see the PAGB Photo exhibition at Manchester Cathedral before it ended 2 weeks ago - it was excellent and was good to see some great pictures. I love the cathedral. When I was an art student in Manchester I used to go and sit and listen to choral evensong every evening on the way home. The music always finished a day off well. 

Took this pic on Thursday with my iPhone and later found that Corel have launched a new iPhone App  - Paint-It. This is the result. 

Flower Paintings

Bought a little Chinese paper sketch book and have been painting away in the garden when the sun was out.  One of our dahlias has been amazing with flowers that are 10 inches in diameter so that was one of my subjects. it is still hard to get going and I hope the course I start in a couple of weeks will give me the discipline to do more painting - and on big paper.

Chinese Watercolour Painting

I'm going to do a course in September on Chinese watercolour painting. it is something I never did before and decided it would get me motivated to do real art again. Chinese watercolour painting is very disciplined and is meditative in nature. The brush must only make a mark that is deliberate and the calligraphy is something that all Chinese people have to study from an early age.

I have had some days over the summer painting and this is one of my avocets.