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Chloe
Sep 20, 20234 min read
Why I paint with a limited palette
Back when I used to paint in oils, what felt like decades ago (or pre-2020) I had far too many colours, and honestly very little idea of...
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Chloe
Sep 16, 20233 min read
Woodlands & Walks: week 2 (study week)
For the second week of my 100 day landscape challenge , and as I found myself hesitant and almost faltering so early on, I decided to...
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Chloe
Sep 10, 20232 min read
Woodlands & Walks – week 1
I’m 10 days in to a 100 day art challenge with the Woodlands and Walks series , and it’s already thrown a lot of surprises my way. What...
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Chloe
Aug 31, 20232 min read
Woodlands & Walks: series beginnings
The way a seed grows where it falls, no matter whether it’s clinging to the edge of a waterfall or in between cracks in the asphalt....
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Chloe
Aug 22, 20232 min read
The Heather & Highlands collection
I’m thrilled to be able to share this latest collection of painted landscapes from my first solo painting trip. Though I knew I would be...
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Chloe
Aug 17, 20233 min read
How to rescue a struggling painting
I’ve been loving a more dramatic, bolder colour palette lately. Beautiful buttery yellows, rich magenta and swathes of rich sky blue....
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Chloe
Aug 9, 20233 min read
What does the perfect landscape look like?
Landscapes have captivated us for centuries. We paint them, retreat to them on holiday, we take endless photographs of and in front of...
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Chloe
Jul 16, 20233 min read
8 ways painting small changed me
2022 was probably my worst year for painting. I can count the number of canvases I completed on one hand. I was struggling to figure out...
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Chloe
Jul 10, 20232 min read
Art Diaries: Under The Same Sky
It is the edges of the light that I am drawn to paint, the lightways that divide the edge of place from sky, the division between land...
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Chloe
Jun 19, 20233 min read
The power of place: Scotland’s landscapes and the creative spirit
I’ve always painted nature. From flat watercolour animals on printer paper to my first experiment on canvas with horses (I haven’t saved...
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Chloe
Jun 3, 20233 min read
Wildlife art vs landscape art (and why I made the switch)
For the first ten years of my painting journey, I mostly created oil paintings and watercolours of wildlife. But recently, I’ve almost...
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Chloe
May 10, 20232 min read
Sketching Scotland
“Everything in miniature!” The lady at the art shop smiled as she scanned my purchases. A tiny, smaller-than-postcard-sized black...
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