Will it be third time lucky? This will be another made up landscape. And the colours will again be Payne's grey, Mayan blue genuine and burnt...
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If You’ve Never Failed, You’ve Not Experimented Enough
After that huge flop, I needed to have another go. I switched to my regular palette, making my main three colours Payne's grey, Mayan blue genuine...
Big Flop – Please Scroll Past
OK, this is the first of three paintings today. After a pair of paintings supporting my LAOTY and PAOTY entries, I thought I deserved some fun...
Karen Of Mountbatten-Windsorius
Back to posterised watercolour portraits today. I fancied trying to reproduce the outer spacey look of Miles Davis, so hunted around for a Star...
Jackson’s Art Prize Extended Longlist
Today's big news is that The Wrong Kind Of Snow has made it on to the Jacksons Art Prize extended longlist. Out of 16,280 entries, only 4,200...
I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day
A soft pastel landscape feels well overdue, especially when soft pastels have been put forward as my medium of choice for LAOTY. So that's what...
And It Makes Me Wonder
Looks like I'm taking a break from LAOTY and PAOTY prep this week then because today I fancied giving the crystalline water colours their first...
Raven S In Coloured Pencil
As expected, after Wednesday's effort, I had to come up with a coloured pencil figure today. Today's model is Raven S, someone who worked out well...
Michaela II
Too much on this week. And even with nothing on today, I don't feel liberated enough to spend a few hours on a landscape or portrait, so it's a day...
Thomas Tuchel
When I asked ChatGPT for feedback on Miles Davis, it started raving about how that painting looked like a constellation against a starry...
Miles Davis
Back to watercolour portraits again. I'm more optimistic about my PAOTY chances than my LAOTY chances but I have to keep going at both. I saw...
The House Of The Past
Right, let's get back to pastel landscapes and show those LAOTY judges what I can do. I went for oil pastels today as it's still cold. I prefer...
The Forgotten Twelve
So here it is: my tribute to the twelve astronauts to have visited the moon before 2026 but never set foot on it. I'm calling them the forgotten...
Ronald Evans
It's been a long journey but we've finally made it to Apollo 17, at the time of writing the last manned mission to the moon. Gene Cernan was...
Ken Mattingly
The next member of the club is Ken Mattingly, CMP of Apollo 16. His crew mates were Commander John Young and LMP Charles Duke. It was John's second...
Alfred Worden
Second one today and number ten in the collection is Alfred Worden, CMP of Apollo 15. David Scott was commander of this mission and James Irwin the...
Stuart Roosa
After a day off while waiting for some new markers to arrive, it's back to work. This is Stuart Roosa, CMP of Apollo 14. He stayed in orbit while...
Fred Haise
Number eight in the collection is Fred Haise, Lunar Module Pilot in Apollo 13. The plan was for Fred to be the sixth man on the moon and to not be...
Jack Swigert
Number 7 in the collection is Jack Swigert. Command Module Pilot in the ill fated but miraculous Apollo13. Jack's second colour is a grey, cool...
Richard Gordon Junior
Before I say anything else, the mystery has been solved. Someone on LinkedIn worked out that the twelve subjects in this collection are the twelve...