I'm back to cricket player portraits today. After my disastrous Stuart Broad portrait, I'm having another attempt at a bowler who could bat for me...
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Annual Self Portrait 2023
It's that time of year when a certain job comes up. It's time for the annual self portrait, something that I've been looking forward to for a...
Painting Watercolour Snow Scenes The Easy Way, Terry Harrison – Book Review
I bought another book this week. It's been down near the bottom of my wishlist for a while but when the price suddenly fell to £7.41 I jumped in...
Climate Change
It's been a while now since my last painting but I decided earlier in the week that today was going to be my first watercolour day of 2023. The...
Landscape Artist Of The Year
Just six days to go until episode 4 of this series of Landscape Artist Of The Year and my second appearance as a wildcard. It's on Sky Arts,...
The 2023 Colour Palette
This week I've been thinking about the colours in my watercolour palette. My 2022 palette included three Daniel Smith primatek colours as special...
Stuart Broad
I don't want to spend more time talking about this one than I have to, so let's get on with it. It's another cricketer portrait. I needed two...
The Natural Way To Paint, Charles Reid – Book Review
Not a Christmas present, this one. It's a book I've been after a while and that I've been watching out for using the CamelCamelCamel website,...
Supergranulator Swatching
For my second and final set of swatches today, I turned to the supergranulators. Now being the owner of three sets of Schmincke supergranulators,...
Artgraf Swatching
It's a new year and I want to be out painting as soon as possible so that I can get a set of paintings worth including in an entry to Landscape...
Graham Thorpe
I've been in action with coloured pencils again. This one took me three days. It let me use some of the ideas that I picked up from the Karen...
Critiqued By Liron Yanconsky!
Today I was honoured to have my work critiqued on YouTube by Liron Yanconsky, an artist that I hugely admire. The link...
Realistic Portraits In Colored Pencil, Karen Hull – Book Review
And here's the last of my Christmas books. It's a 144 page paperback, slightly oversized at about 9 inches by 12. The book can be divided into...
The Old Bridge, Latheronwheel
After reading those two books and coming up with this painting, I think I may finally have "got" coloured pencils. It's all about adding multiple...
Annual Awards 2022
<This post was written on June 24 2025 and has been backdated to a more appropriate date> Two more awards this time: coloured pencils and...
Landscape In Ink And Coloured Pencil, Helen Hanson – Book Review
Here's the review of the second of the three books on coloured pencil that I got for Christmas. It's a 160 page paperback and is not just about a...
Drawing Animal Portraits In Coloured Pencil, Lisa Ann Watkins – Book Review
I've finished reading the first of my Christmas books. This was a 144 page paperback, one of those paperbacks with the glossy covers that are a...
‘Andles For Forks
And here's today's second painting. It's Candle as the model again and this is her fourth appearance. This time it's my second attempt at using...
Candle In Oil Pastel
I'm not in the mood at the moment to take my time and come up with perfect paintings. I'm feeling loose and energetic and wanting to rattle off...
First Go With The Artgraf Colours: Candle
I wanted to have a quick go with the Artgraf colours today: see what they were like. I thought I'd start with some figure drawing, so chose a pose...