With one page left in my rough watercolourpaper block and that page starting to come away at the edges, I wanted to do another watercolour today...
Month: November 2023
Ellie’s Spot
I've done another painting of Queendown Warren today. This isa bench that I walk past pretty well every day. If it's been raining a lot, I go for...
What Happens In Manchester Stays In Manchester
Yesterday was a day for oil pastels, so I took a look through the box of CDs that I currently have out in the studio, seeking potential portrait...
DanM
Since reading the Douglas Graves book, I've been intending to try out some figure drawing with the charcoal. I got around to it today with...
Roughtor, Dartmoor
Tempting though it is to keep painting portraits and figures, I do need to keep up the landscapes, ready for LAOTY of I make into a pod or the...
Joe Strummer
I'm back from the Upchurch art exhibition now and my studio's all back to normal. I only sold the one painting, The Happiest Days Of Our Lives...
Life Drawing In Charcoal, Douglas R. Graves – Book Review
Time for another book review. I've been holding back from figure drawing in charcoal because I wanted to read this book first. Well, I don't have...
InnaBG
I'm back on the Artrafs today, aware of my promise from last time to hold back on the blue and not make the darks too dark. So here goes. It's a...
Ameeka
Back on the Artgrafs today, and I'm painting Ameeka for the first time. I thought I’d try replicating the success of Thea 5 by using the exact...
H2 Artistic Actuary Poll
It's time for my next art poll. After eliminating a load of clunkers from my last six months of output I'm left with 51 works, which is about the...
The Corbomite Manouver Collection
And here they are, all together. Spock, Kirk and Scotty. None of them brilliant individual paintings but as a set of three I think they look...
First Officer Spock
I know I said I might not end up completing the Corbomite Manouver Collection but after putting Kirk and Scotty alongside each other I could see...
Venus And The Petrova Line
I'm back on the planets again and today it's Venus. It took me a long time to come up with an idea about how to make a painting of Venus a bit...
Mick Fleetwood
You know what? I did end up finding a photo of Mick Fleetwood that would make a great portrait. It was a pretty monochrome photo and was close to...
Krys
Still not feeling the watercolours so today's an Artgraf day. It's also a day of experimentation because I've bought a hot pressed watercolour...
Fame
I was feeling watercoloured out today and in the mood for a different medium, so went for the oil pastels. I wanted to draw a portrait and was...