Again only time for one portrait but today it's a double. Godfrey was played by Arnold Ridley and Pike by Ian Lavender. Arnold and Ian were the...
Month: August 2023
Lance Corporal Jack Jones
Only time for one more portrait today and it's Lance Corporal Jack Jones, played by Clive Dunn. I picked out this portrait because of all...
Maurice Yeatman And The Reverend Timothy Farthing
Next up it's the verger and the vicar, played by Edward Sinclair and Frank Williams respectively. Maybe not who people were expecting but two much...
Private Joe Walker
Next up is Private Joe Walker, played by James Beck, one of my favourite two characters in this TV show. What I liked about the source photo was...
Sergeant Arthur Wilson
I was away for a few days for a wedding in Leeds last weekend and just started playing in a correspondence chess tournament. With too much brain...
Painting Trees, Rob and Siân Dudley – Book Review
The latest of my birthday books to be scrutinised is this one by Rob and Siân Dudley. It's about, guess what, painting trees. It's a 176 page...
LumenF
I didn't have much time today but still wanted to do some painting so went for a bit of figure drawing with the inktense pencils. It's LumenF's...
Disapproval From Mount Rushmore
Another watercolour today. I wanted to have another go with the desert supergranulators supplemented with cool blues after they worked out so well...
Inverie In Tundra Colours
I didn't stay away long. I'm back to paint Inverie again, this time using the tundra supergranulators. I've chosen a different viewpoint and was...
The Old Forge In Watercolour
I'm back on the watercolours and couldn't resist having another go at The Old Forge in Ivernie. It was tempting have a go at this scene in tundra...
The Old Forge, Inverie
This, or at least the building on the far left, is The Old Forge, a pub in the village of Inverie on the Knoydart Peninsula. It was in the news...
Drawing & Painting Portraits In Watercolour, David Thomas – Book Review
Another book review and this time it's a foray into the world of watercolour portraits, surely a direction that I'll be travelling at some point in...
Torre Nubia
After that View From Ardtinish Castle, that dear old boy Howard has done it again and come up with another amazing holiday photo made up of simple...
Breaking The Rules Of Watercolour, Shirley Trevena – Book Review
Another book review and, for the second time in a row, it's a book that had a different focus to what I was expecting. I did put this book on my...
View From Ardtornish Castle
An old mate from Uni, Howard, was recently on holiday in the Scottish Highlands and Islands and posted loads of photos on Facebook. The one on...
The Mukurob (Finger Of God)
So after finishing Hazel Soan's African Watercolours I wanted to strike while the iron was hot and paint something influenced by the book. For...
Hazel Soan’s African Watercolours – Book Review
Time for another book review. This 128–page paperback has been on my wishlist for a good few years, gradually making its way upwards as other...
Queendown Warren Car Park
So here's my first ever charcoal painting. It's of the entrance to a car park in Queendown Warren, somewhere between Hartlip and Medway Services....
Charcoal Swatching
My Jackson’s order finally made it through yesterday so I was almost ready to start using the charcoals but first I set out to the shops. I...