Year: 2022

Candace

I'm on the watercolours again today.  In an attempt to find some form, I'm going for a colourful bit of figure drawing as that normally works out...

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Bridge Near Oswaldkirk

Oil pastels are just too much fun.  Every other painting at the moment is in oil pastel and it's an oil pastel day today.  I thought I'd be...

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Once Upon A Time In The West Again

Time for a watercolour again and today was looking like a good day to be painting in the garden.  After yesterday's success with a Western and the...

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She Wore A Yellow Ribbon

After such a miserable effort yesterday, I had to go back to the oil pastels today. With the watercolours it's still touch and go whether I can...

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BronwynS

So here's today's second effort.  A debut for BronwynS.  I won't spend too long writing this one up.  It doesn't deserve the time. I stared trying...

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The Return Of Jazmine

I'm doing two figure drawings today.  I bought a new cartridge pad the other week for my inktense drawings and started filling it out.  But then a...

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Two Trees, Hartlip House

After a flop with the watercolours, I'm back to the oil pastels again, where everything always seems to go well and I can regain some confidence. ...

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Round The Back Of Hartlip Church

I'm finally back onto the watercolours today.  The weather looked good outside but the rain came along so I moved to the garage.  It would have...

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Animal Biscuit Valley, New Zealand

I'm still on the oil pastels but it's a landscape in New Zealand today.  Well kind of.  I've been a bit smart today and left out some rocks that...

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Rory Burns

I noticed the other day that I'd still not used my black oil pastel.  With watercolours, black's a pretty boring colour and a bad mixer.  I can...

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Annual Self Portrait 2022

It's time for the annual self portrait and after two years of inktense pencils, this year's portrait is in oil pastels.  I have a long way to go...

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KylieB Sitting On A Box

Back to the figure drawing with the inktense pencils today.  I've been doing a lot of these during 2022 and I expect people are getting bored with...

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Torres Del Paine National Park

Enough with the naked women, I'm back onto landscapes.  This is three artworks in successive days, which is pretty unusual for me. The subject...

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KeiraG

I didn't want to go straight back to the oil pastels today.  I had this feeling that if I did go for them I'd be impatient and rushed.  Better to...

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Sarah Ann

After a few weeks away following the loss of my father, I'm back to the artwork.  And I'm glad I am.  It was great to spend an hour and a half away...

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Mika M, In Action

How about some figure drawing in oil pastel?  I've tried it once before, here, without success but that was when I'd only just got the watercolours...

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Ross Kemp

Wednesday night is Landscape Of The Year night.  But just before LAOTY is a repeat of Portrait Artist Of The Year that I don't watch, having seen...

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Ullapool

I fancied giving the oil pastels a go today and this is what I came up with.  It's a view of Ullapool, a tiny town somewhere on the West Coast of...

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The Listener

My Dad's had a new kitchen fitted.  When I dropped in to see him, I rescued a bunch of old kitchen shelves from a skip in the drive with the...

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