About Simon Roberts

Simon is an artist and painting tutor based in the South of France where is leads painting holidays and workshops.

How to Paint…The old bridge on the road to St. Gervais sur Mare.

Come and paint this picturesque scene by following my step by step guide. A couple of weeks ago I rode my motorcycle up into the mountains of the Haute Languedoc Park, about 30 minutes from where we live. It was a beautiful afternoon, ideal for just to rolling around the early Autumn countryside. I rode [...]

How to Paint..an Iris – A watercolour painting tutorial and Video

With the whole of France now in 'lockdown', I find myself with a lot of studio time ahead. Painting en plein air is now off the agenda so I've decided to supplement our Painting in France YouTube channel with a series of  'How to Paint..'videos. Movement is limited to trips to supermarkets and pharmacies and [...]

Artist’s Photo – a step by step watercolour tutorial

SAA Artist's photo - You paint it. January 2020. A step by step watercolour tutorial of this shady scene I was perusing the SAA website after Christmas and I came across their 'Artist's photo - You paint it' January challenge. Every month an artist submits a photo as a reference for a SAA painting competition. [...]

Autumn in Paris: a step by step watercolour tutorial

'Autumn in Paris'. An atmospheric oil painting by Russian artist, Yuri M. Bondarenko is the subject for this step by step watercolour tutorial. I don't normally encourage students to paint from a painting as you tend to get involved with copying the style too closely. Alternatively, I suggest working on a painting using another artist's [...]

Le Pont Vieux, Beziers – a watercolour painting tutorial.

I've seen this view of Beziers many times on postcards and always thought it would make a fine painting subject. When we finally found exactly where the view was from, we climbed to a higher terrace and included the wintry plain trees which I think add to the composition. We were on an exploratory walk [...]

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