Leisure Painter

How to create a sense of space

’ve been trying to get rid of a lot of old stuff lately, and seem to have millions of old sketches, many of which are best used as paper darts to amuse the grandchildren. One watercolour sketch of the done in 1993 (bottom right) caught my eye, because it was so badly painted: the to paint a landscape.

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