It feels a while since my last painting but it's only been a week. My excuse is that I've been playing in a correspondence chess tournament. I...
Year: 2022
Summer 2022 Poll Results
I messed up slightly with this poll. About half the paintings in it were of naked figures and I think this is why 26 of the first 40 people to...
The Summer 2022 Artistic Actuary Poll
I'm needing some help again please. It's been a busy Summer and I already have another 50 works that I'd like to put t the vote so I've set up a...
Black Rock Cottage, Glencoe In The Key Of Purple Cool
So, as promised, here's another painting of Black Rock Cottage, but this time using more conventional watercolour.ours rather than the...
Black Rock Cottage, Glencoe In Tundra Colours
I promised people on LinkedIn that I'd start posting my artwork up there. Yesterday I put up my first figure drawing since retirement and it was...
Felicia In Coloured Pencil
Before I start talking art, a bit of news. I retired on Tuesday. Eighteen months without a contract and the likelihood of my father's will being...
Looking Up At L3, Christ’s College
And finally today, we're back home in Christ's College. This was the first to be drawn on Sunday and the last to be painted today. It's a view...
Looking Out From Clare College Memorial Court
Next up is Clare College, and this is a view looking out from Memorial Court through the big archway into it. Here's the drawing I did on...
The WongAvery Music Gallery, Trinity Hall, Cambridge
I've had two trips to Cambridge this week. On Sunday I had to drop off number two son at his Trinity Hall accommodation. He's just starting a...
Bailey
After a few days off dealing with all sorts of other stuff in my life, I'm back to work again. Today it's some figure drawing in coloured pencils...
The Encyclopaedia Of Coloured Pencil Techniques: Judy Martin – Book Review
And here it is, the last of the books I got for my birthday to be reviewed. It's a 176 page paperback. It's a book of two halves, with about half...
Stockbury Church Tower
For my final dash and splash of the day, I headed out to Stockbury Church and settled down in a spot that I'd painted from before. After not being...
MB Farms, Stockbury
After drawing the pub, I wandered up the road to MB Farms, Stockbury's village shop and the closest shop to those of us in Hartlip. MB Farms...
The Harrow, Stockbury
Sunday is always a good day for a dash and splash and today I've trekked out to my neighbouring village of Stockbury to do three drawings before...
Tweaking The Random Colour Generator
As an actuary, I'm feeling professionally bound to disclose that I've made some tweaks today to the spreadsheet that chooses three random colours...
Hills In Shire Colours
As I said in the last post, I felt like I could do a second quick painting today. Because I’d managed to paint an imaginary landscape quite...
Hills In Tundra Colours
The rain's finally stopped, so I'm back on the watercolours at last. I thought I'd let myself back in gently by painting an imaginary landscape...
Felicia In Inktense Pencil
It's raining again and three successive days of drawing with coloured pencils would see my standards really drop, so I'm back to inktense pencils....
Felicia
It's still raining here and more's due tomorrow. I know I'm overdue a watercolour but I can't be going outside in this weather, so I'm stuck...
Thea’s Back
More angular figure drawing and today's model was Thea. You know the drill by now. Put down the drawing with lots of straight lines, put on lots...