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Elizabeth Olsen
I'm back onto putting my Avengers team together. Next up is Elizabeth Olsen as the Scarlet Witch. The Avengers aren't the Avengers without a...
Landscape Artist Of The Year
The program's over. Nice that I got a big soundbite talking about how I was going to be painting on a map. It's a shame that they only announced...
Landscape Artist Of The Year
I'll be in this week's Landscape Artist Of The Year as a wildcard. Sky Arts is free to view and is available via both Freeview and Freesat. I...
Becca And Daniel
Too much swatching, time for some artwork. I wasn't feeling up to going the full watercolour today so decided to do my first bit of inktense...
The Big Swatch
After settling on a palette with three reds, three blues and three yellows (counting raw sienna as a yellow), I was keen to produce a new set of...
Colour Bugs
Now that the squad is selected, it's time to follow up that trial of the reds with a full scale workout for the new set of colours. Rather than...
The 2021 Palette Collection
And here it is, the 2021 12-pan palette. The squad has finally been announced. The loser in yesterday's trail of the reds was permanent rose....
Trial Of The Reds
It's that time of year when my mind turns to selecting a squad of colours to occupy my palette. Well, one of my palettes. I have a palette of 24...
Robert Downey Junior
My second and final portrait of the day. It's another in the Avengers collection and it's Robert Downey Junior who played Iron Man. As Iron Man,...
Mark Ruffalo
After Chadwick Boseman came out so well just after after Christmas, I thought I'd build a team and use him as the first in a series of MCU Avengers...
New Year, New Look
I've had a play around and come up with a new look to the website for 2021. Any good?
The Regeneration Of Lord Ernie
I got some silverbrush black velvet brushes for Christmas and have been itching to try them out, so braved the cold today and did some painting in...
Landscape Painting Essentials, Johannes Vloothuis: Book Review
I've had my eye on this book for a while, so ordered it as soon as I'd opened all my presents and the Christmas Amazon furlough was over. It's a...
Chadwick Boseman
It's only 28th December but a new year's artwork kicks off here. I wanted to have another go at a black and white portrait against a black...
Gestural Heather
Another go at an expressive, gestural bit of figure drawing. I picked a pose by Heather for this one, wanting something simpler and quite liking...
Gestural AnaIv
I was in the mood to take some risks today, so I thought I'd have a go at a technique recommended by Bill Buchman in Expressive Figure Drawing....
2020 Survey Results
Thanks to everybody that participated in the survey. There were 21 responses and these were the results, with some surprises in there as...
A Date For The Diary
Wednesday 3rd February, 8pm, Sky Arts. That's when I'll be appearing as a wildcard. Best make sure you can access Sky Arts before then.
The Big 2020 Artistic Actuary Survey
The year's nearly over so I've created another survey. As well as diversifying into markers and inktense pencils, my watercolours have moved in a...