For my first painting using the NeoLucida XL, I picked out a photo of Jesse James. I thought it would be a gentle way to make myself familiar with...
Month: August 2024
The NeoLucida XL
I’ve invested in some new gear. This has been on the cards for a while but it was having to measure out three grids of different sizes for the...
Peter Red, Peter Amber, Peter Green
It didn't take long for me to get around to painting Peter Green. I went for a triple portrait of Peter because his personal history made him a...
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Ok, so I've painted Devon Allman, Duane Allman, Eric Clapton, Allen Collins, Jerry Garcia, Billy Gibbons, David Gilmour, Warm Haynes. Jimi Hendrix,...
Ansleigh In Soft Pastel
I thought I'd better have a go at a figure with soft pastels today. I've used them for a landscape and a portrait, so only fair that they should be...
Ansleigh
We're off over the road for a pub dinner at five this afternoon and I wanted to finish and write up an artwork with plenty of time to spare so I...
Mel Smith
Look, I'll make this quick today. Hartlip has been cut off from the internet, so I'm at Medway Services typing this up and quite fancy getting home...
Bunnahabhain Distillery
I'm still making my way through my birthday presents but it isn't new art gear today: it's a new malt. An 18 year old Bunnahabhain from Islay...
And, By The Way, Which One Is Pink?
With most of the paint on the Schmincke dot card used up, I thought I'd have another go at an abstract portrait rather than have them sitting...
Ilad Rodavlas
And here's the companion piece to Salvador Dali, painted in parallel. It follows pretty well the same method, the only three differences being...
Salvador Dali
So here's what I did with that Schmincke dot card. I quite fancied doing a portrait, so looked around for a simple portrait of a colourful...
Schmincke Horadam Aquarell Exclusive Colours
Today's a busy day, what with this being the first of three planned posts. Another birthday present to try out. It's a dot card of 24...
Creating Textured Landscapes With Pen, Ink And Watercolor, Claudia Nice – Book Review
This is the last of the stash of art books that I got for my birthday. It's a 144 page paperback and is in landscape format. It's still roughly...
The Face Of Harakbut
This is the Face Of Harakbut. It's in the Amazon rainforest, somewhere in Peru. Nobody knows whether it's manmade or a natural rock formation. ...
Freebird!
This one's been coming for a while. It's a portrait of Allen Collins and Gary Rossington, two of the founder members of Lynyrd Skynyrd and I'm...
Painting And Understanding Abstract Art, John Lowry – Book Review
Time for another book review and today it's this one by John Lowry on painting abstracts. It's a 160 page paperback by Crowood. I’m not going to...
Mighty Mouse
Yesterday's painting was bad, very bad. I just had to come back and have another go at Kevin Keegan, acting in some of the lessons I'd learned...
Kevin Keegan
Back for another go with the crystalline watercolour and today it's my first go at using them for a portrait. Today's subject is the legend that...
Rupert Thomson
Back to painting today and I've had my first go at a portrait using the soft pastels. Today's subject was the author Rupert Thomson. I started...
David Bellamy’s Complete Guide To Landscapes – Book Review
Things have been a bit quiet over the last couple of days as I've been reading this 288 page paperback monster. It's one of those books that's been...