Month: April 2024

CasD

After needing to take two attempts at painting the Earp brothers, I felt like I'd wasted a day of my life, so after finishing the corrected...

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The Earps

After discovering Friday's disaster I wanted to come up with a proper painting of The Earps as quickly as possible.  This was finished ar about...

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Three Famous Gunslingers

<Edit: The day after I painted and posted this one I found that I'd screwed up.  The guy on the right is Frank James, not Virgil Earp.  That...

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Windsor Castle

Another watercolour landscape today and another one completed not long after lunch.  I can feel myself settling into a routine of painting in the...

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BethR

A few things to do today so I thought I'd have the day off and read a book but the kindle battery died on me during the afternoon so I thought I'd...

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Towards Warren Cottage

I’ve caught up on my sleep now and can finally complete my three watercolours in three days challenge, two days late.  The challenge for the third...

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Nuuk Cathedral

Day two of my three watercolour landscapes in three days challenge and today it's buildings day.  I picked out a scene in Nuuk that had a church in...

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Alan Shearer

  Lots of stuff going on at the moment so I thought I'd be better off just going for a quick inktense pencil painting today and give the sepia...

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Ally MacLeod

A grim day today with a power cut in the morning and then no WiFi when the power came back on so I'm grabbing a sneaky coffee in Costa while I...

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The City

After yesterday's experimentation I wanted to use all the lessons from it as quickly as possible, so that's what I've been doing today. I started...

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Because The Night

I was in an experimental mood today.  I wanted to try out more of my new Inktense pencil colours, the saddle brown and sepia ink not having been...

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Lewes Castle

Here's a question for you.  Who had a UK number one in the 1979s with D.I.V.O.R.C.E.?  Good guess but you're wrong.  It was Billy Connolly with a...

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Yaugher Lane, Queendown Warren

We’re getting close to that time of year when the oil pastels start melting in my hands and become unusable so, with today being a lot colder than...

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Secret Tunnel Under The M2

  The weather forecast said that this afternoon would be a lot warmer than yesterday, that the morning's wind would have calmed down and that there...

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Purdey

I wanted to give some of my new inktense pencils a runout, so that's what I'm going today.  And with three of those new colours being fleshy...

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The Persuaders! Collection

And here they are together, The Persuaders!  Lord Brett Sinclair works better as one of a pair than he did on his own. What I find fascinating...

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Lord Brett Sinclair

And here's my second marker portrait of the day, Lord Brett Sinclair played by Sir Roger Moore. Just like Danny Wilde, he's in monotone greys but...

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