Author: ArtisticActuary

Fixative On Soft Pastels

Before my next painting, which will be in soft pastels, a long overdue experiment. If I’m ever to sell soft pastel paintings (and I'm planning on...

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Early Twentieth Century Hartlip

Time to work on building up a reserve of paintings ready to display at the Rose & Crown when others are sold. For today's subject I picked out...

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In From The Storm

The news came through last night that two of my paintings that were on display at at the Rose & Crown have been sold. So I needed to find a...

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Weissenhof Estate, Stuttgart

The subject of today's painting is a building in the Weissenhof Estate in Stuttgart, a set of supermodern homes built for an exhibition on 1927. ...

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Angus Young

Oh dear, this hasn’t been a great start to September. I wanted to give the fineliners another runout. To encourage myself to be looser with the...

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Jesse Woodson James

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...

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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...

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Stevie Ray Vaughan

Ok, so I've painted Devon Allman, Duane Allman, Eric Clapton, Allen Collins, Jerry Garcia, Billy Gibbons, David Gilmour, Warren Haynes. Jimi...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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