“Indian yellow used to be produced by feeding cows mango leaves and using the colour produced in the urine to make the paint pigment! The practice was outlaw...

Yes, green! The colour of lavender buds before they turn blue, the leaves and the stems – the palest and softest of blue grey greens. Photo by Maria Florent ...

Another of my favourite colours and one which I tend to wear in summer, with faded indigo blue, pale greys linen and silver. A pair of my favourite earrings ...

Bootcamping again with Make Art That Sells, and this months assignment was Suffragettes. I was given Madeline (Madge) McDowell Breckinridge, from Kentucky, t...

One of my favourite colours is Prussian blue, it's very versatile, hints and tints, washes heavy and dark to light and bright I love it! It's the colour of t...

Never heard of him? I hadn't either ...but found an amazing video of how he works on YouTube: ...and now I'm hooked! Loving all that colour and feeling the u...

Bonus Artist this week - I just adore the work of Ben Nicholson! A Master of subtlety - such precise, understated yet superb draughtsmanship. His cool sense ...

Artist and Potter - or is that Potter and Artist?! Either way I love the freedom in his work... I seem to be mentioning Freedom a lot! I've seen his pots sev...

Fantastic figures full of action, amazing ballet costumes for the Ballet Russes. Great patterns and figures - I feel like I'm getting to know more about my ow...

Consummate draughtsman, superb anatomical drawing with a colour sense beyond the pale. Parrish worked as an illustrator, most of his early work being line il...

A week in Scotland and thoughts naturally turn to the ubiquitous tartan, well it is everywhere! Several years ago - during a visit to Cardoness - I found mys...