Author: ArtisticActuary

Les Dawson

After almost a week off, I'm back to painting today. After seeing how the M Graham landscape colours resulting quite restrained, brown up...

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Could It Be Magic?

Today I quite fancied putting dry pigment down on the paper and wetting it. I'd already picked out a photo of Barry Manilow that might look good...

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Miss Magnolia Muse

OK then, Iā€™ve built up a decent reserve of paintings for when any are sold at the Rose & Crown and need replacing. I can get back to painting...

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The Tryst

I had another go at a sky painting in soft pastels today but I'm already veering off the beaten path by going for a cloud formation that looks like...

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The Touch Of Pan

Something a bit different today. This frying pan was going to be thrown out and replaced so I thought I'd grab it and paint it. if I was doing...

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Sir Geoff Hurst

I had to order a load of paints and paper from Jacksonā€™s the other day and was delighted to see another dot card thrown in as. Free extra. This...

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Fixative On Soft Pastels

Before my next painting, which will be in soft pastels, a long overdue experiment. If Iā€™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 hasnā€™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

Iā€™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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