Today's painting is a portrait of the actress Hedy Lamarr. I saw a photo of her and the highlights and shadows were just screaming out to be...
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The Wrong Kind Of Snow
After all that fun yesterday with the tundra supergranulators, I was ready to give them another go today, with another snowy mountain scene but one...
Built A Cabin And A Winter Store
In an attempt to tick off another line from Telegraph Road, I was Googling cabins in Greenland and came across a photo of a couple of cabins (or...
You Can Hear Them Singing Out Their Telegraph Code
It's a landscape with the soft pastels today, and it's just the sort of landscape I enjoy painting with this medium. There's lots of sky, a big...
Annual Awards 2024
And here we are for the 2024 awards. Once I've finished this post I'll be up to date. With 2024 being the year that I frost used crystalline...
Annual Awards 2023
We're on to the 2023 awards and decisions are going to be a lot more difficult. There are some masterpieces that aren't going to win prizes. ...
Annual Awards 2022
Two more awards this time: coloured pencils and Artgraf. We're up to 14. The winners in this year feel like a bit of a letdown considering how...
Annual Awards 2021
One more award to add to the list, with oil pastels now joining the party. Marker Painting Of The Year: Doctor Richard Maunder Inktense...
Annual Awards 2020
It's 2020 and this is starting to become a serious event. There are now eleven awards to hand out, with markers, inktense pencils, figure paintings...
Annual Awards 2019
OK, here come the 2019 awards. There's a Portrait Of The Year for the first time. And there's a lot more competition for landscape and watercolour...
Annual Awards 2018
I was thinking ahead today to my year end hiatus and thinking that I really should end the year with an awards ceremony, choosing my best painting...
New! Random Slideshows
I was in one of those moods today and I ended up spending a few hours creating some pages on the website where people can see random slideshows...
Let Not The Sun
After finishing the Carrie McKenzie book, I thought I'd better have a go at a landscape using the crystalline watercolour. I picked a view along...
The Art Of Brusho, Carrie McKenzie – Book Review
Let's do a book review before kicking back and enjoying Saturday evening. I read this one yesterday. It's a 103 page paperback, quite short by...
Just Believe In Me Baby And I’ll Take You Away
After Galen went so well earlier this month, I thought I'd have another go with the Artgraf blocks. This time, though, it's a figure painting. The...
He Made A Home In The Wilderness
It's back to landscapes and to soft pastels today. This is neither WW2 pillbox, this time on the Wales Coast Path in Pembrey, Carmarthenshire. So...
People Driving Home From The Factories
Today was a good day for a long painting after getting out really early to go for my walk before the temperature got too high. And when things did...
Police Chief Clancy O’Hara
My plan today was to give the potters' pink a good workout and, in particular, to use some of the more interesting mixes it makes with some of the ...
Planet Of The Apes (TV Series) Series
These three look pretty good together. We have: Galen, in Artgraf Urko in crystalline watercolour Doctor Zaius in watercolour All...
Doctor Zaius
It was always going to happen. Today's subject is Doctor Zaius from the Planet Of The Apes TV series, played by Booth Colman. After painting Galen...