Brian's Notebook

I have decided to move this operation to a DeviantArt gallery here: http://brianvds.deviantart.com/gallery/ I'll probably still come...

Sooner or later, everyone has to try out the droplets-on-petals thing. As usual nowadays, quite small; 3.5 x 5 inches: I have never bee...

Two more of my small drawings - sunset scenes (3.5 inch x 5 inch), on larger paper:

I have been moving house, and suffered from a painful and annoying injury on my index finger, precisely where I grip brushes and pencils. Th...

I have been reluctant to post anything, because of my ongoing battle to get my camera to reproduce colours correctly. Greens seem to be part...

I have been working on developing a style of drawing that is more or less consistent with my current paintings style, i.e. unabashed use of ...

Nowadays, I often paint pictures in pairs, with a similar theme and colour scheme. These are all the size of a matchbox, about 50 x 38 mm:...