Today's been quite a short day but, with England playing cricket tomorrow, I didn't want to take what would be two days off, so I went for a quick...
Year: 2023
Upchurch Art Exhibition 2023
This year's Upchurch art exhibition takes place at St Mary's Church between Friday 17th and Sunday 19th November (11am to 4pm, 10 to 4, 10 to 1)...
Sir Bobby Charlton
Sorry everybody. I screwed up today. Rather than doing a fourth portrait in a row I should have switched back to painting planets. I need to...
John Lydon
I wasn’t planning on doing a watercolour today but I found a photo of John Lydon that was just begging to be painted in Liz Chaderton style. In...
B. B. King
Today's not a day for watercolours. I tend to do watercolours in bursts of 2-4 successive days and with yesterday being a charcoal day and...
Donald Trump
I took a break from the planets today. A charcoal painting is long overdue and I thought I'd have a go at a charcoal portrait for the first time....
Mercury
Today's planet is Mercury, sharing its name with the messenger of the Roman gods and therefore deserving of a pair or wings. For the three colours...
The Face Of Mars
Another day, another planet. My latest idea for planet paintings (to go with the ideas of random surrealness and Roman gods) is to think about...
Susan
Monday's housework day and BBC2 quiz night so tends not to be a proper painting day. But after a couple of days off I thought I'd better have a go...
Neptune
This is the second in my series of paintings of the planets and today it's Neptune. There was a question on University Challenge the other week...
The Wishlist
No time to do any painting today but with an empty thirty minutes window going begging, I thought I'd create this post. These are the 24 art books...
Jupiter And Io
Seventeen days since my last watercolour and I'm finally back. The idea for this one popped into my head while out on my walk yesterday. I've no...
Eric Clapton, 1970
I've had loads of chores to do Sunday and Monday, leaving only a couple sessions available for painting. So I went for a coloured pencil portrait...
Lumen F In Artgraf
The day's not over and I have gone for one more painting! While my mind was still in the zone I thought I'd do that second Artgraf painting, this...
Luana
The builders have finished work today and I have access to the studio again. After a break of a couple of weeks, I was expecting my first couple...
Drawing Drapery From Head To Toe, Cliff Young – Book Review
And here's the other book I bought this week. It was while looking around Amazon that iced that I'd never read a book on drawing clothes. All the...
Painting Portraits In Watercolour, Liz Chaderton – Book Review
With the art studio out of bounds while building work is going on, there's not been much painting action going on lately so I thought I'd use the...
Derwent Art Prize 2024
I've no idea how things will turn out but I've entered these two bad boys for the Derwent Art Prize 2024. Entries have to be in pencil but that...
Drawing From Photos, Patrick J. Jones – Book Review
Work still continues on the patio outside and it's possible that I might not be able to access the studio again until it's all over but I did...
Craighouse, Jura
Spin The Wheel! Last night I relaxed in my recliner chair in front of the telly (but reading a book) with a Jura mal5 that had been stored in old...