After four paintings in a row based on the tried and trusted abstract silhouette style, I thought it was time for something different. I was in...
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He Knows, Doctor, He Knows
I'd had a couple of requests to paint a Star Trek scene and this is what I came up with. It's based on a shot near the end of The City At The Edge...
Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid
And here's today's second painting. This one really is a Western. For once it's an action scene rather than a pose. I'm going to claim that I've...
Invasion!
I'm doing two paintings today. Both are based on photos transcribed onto paper by dividing them into grids. Both have the figures masked out, the...
The Q1 2019 Poll
I thought it was about time I checked out public opinions on the pile of artwork that I had sitting around waiting to either be framed or put to...
Tombstone
After the roaring success of Once Upon A Time In The West, I thought I'd have a go at another Western. This time it's Tombstone, the best of the...
Hotel California
After Free Bird and Comfortably Numb, I thought I'd have a go at another concert closer. Believe it or not, I was wanting to make this a realistic...
Realistic Abstracts, Kees Van Aalst – Book Review
This one is 160 pages long, but it’s one of those square shaped ones with smaller pages and a bit more white space so, content-wise, is probably...
Mastering Composition, Ian Roberts – Book Review
144 pages plus DVD. I thought I'd check out a book on composition and this book by Ian Roberts has been getting rave reviews for some time. So I...
Once Upon A Time In The West – In Progress
I shared a photo of today's painting on Facebook before I filled in the silhouettes. I was told I should stop there and frame it but I carried on...
Once Upon A Time In The West
After the rubbish that I put out yesterday, I was determined to paint an ink-free watercolour again as soon as possible but to do it properly,...
Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary, Where Did Your Garden Go?
For my second stripy gesso experiment, I thought I'd better try it out with inks. The gesso stripes this time are slanted, top right to bottom...
Path To The Lake
I was in an experimental mood today. I dug out the gesso and thought I'd have a go at applying it to the paper in stripes rather than all over....
Experimental Landscapes In Watercolour, Ann Blockley – Book Review
128 pages. This is a well-titled book. Any piece of artwork is an experiment. You never know how it's going to work out. Especially when you...
Learn To Paint People Quickly, Hazel Soan – Book Review
This book was 112 pages long but felt much shorter. Ah, maybe that's because it's A5 sized, meaning it's more like a 56 page long pamphlet that's...
Atmospheric Flowers In Watercolour, Jean Haines – Book Review
176 pages. This book is about Jean Haines' atmospheric style of painting as much as it's about painting flowers. Anybody serious about painting...
Painting Successful Watercolours From Photographs, Geoff Kersey – Book Review
I'm struggling to find much to say about this one. It does pretty well exactly what it says on the tin. I've not counted them but there must be...
Watercolour Painting, Tom Hoffmann – Book Review
This one was expensive but it was worth every penny. It's quite a big one at 208 pages. This feels like the definitive stage 3 in a journey that...
Painting Abstracts, Rolina Van Vliet – Book Review
Right. We're into the modern day at last. It's late 2018 and I've finally started to feel like a decent artist, producing paintings that I can...
Terry Harrison’s Complete Guide To Watercolour Landscapes – Book Review
I'm still in the dark days of being a terrible artist and only looking for book bargains, but I struck gold with this one. It's 192 pages long and...