• Learn – along with me – how to draw and paint watercolour like Beatrix Potter copying an illustration from The Tale of Mr Jeremy Fisher.

    You can get the pencil sketch, copies of the two versions I painted and a copy of Beatrix Potter’s version from the book all in hi res scans when you support me on Patreon – You can also get an ebook copy of my book Everyone Can Draw!

    I think this must be my longest video ever! I’ve not cut out a huge amount, maybe five minutes, so this is pretty much in real time.

    My first attempt went very wrong, because I was using the wrong paper and the wrong brush. The second attempt was much better but I think the pencil is all wrong and I still haven’t got the right brush.

    I think I’m going to have to go to the British Museum and get up close with some of her artwork to really understand her style.

    Looking more closely I see she makes her backgrounds very pale and misty, but her foregrounds and shadows are made up of dark colour tints rather than dark overlays, like I instinctively do – which have a habit of going dirty. So I have learned something!

    Now you can listen to my telling of the story of Mr Jeremy Fisher here:

  • I was on the beach in Cape Cod in the USA last week. I didn’t see any jelly fish, though the beach was littered with the remains of Horseshoe crabs. I’ll have to add them to my very long list pdf things to draw. In the meantime, follow this simple drawing video and learn how to draw a jellyfish for yourself.

  • Grrrr! Learn to draw a velociraptor real easy by following this easy step by step video. Remember, you can stop and start the video as you follow along  you can also watch it as many times as you like. You can also draw it as many times as you like, until you get it right… practice makes perfect ?