Author: ArtisticActuary

Waterfall Green

It's been cold outside for the last week or so and I'm going through a phase where I'm too messy to be able to work indoors so there's been a bit...

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Winter Roots

And for my second painting today, I thought I'd just throw everything on the paper and see what came out.  Here's what I ended up with. I...

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A Windy Day In Whitstable

We went for a walk along the coast with the dog yesterday. On the way back from Whitstable to the car, the tide was in, the wind was fierce and the...

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The Searchers Again

I'm back to silhouette scenes from famous Westerns. This time it's back to The Searchers. John Ford really knew how to compose a scene. The rider...

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The Day Ends, Springfield, Virginia

This one was inspired from a Facebook post that I saw only four hours ago of a sunset in Springfield, Virginia. It looks nothing like the original...

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Whoa!

So, after the last painting was a quinacridone magenta free zone, I had to follow it up quickly with another painting. Something experimental,...

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Grand Teton National Park

I thought I should go back to basics and paint a normal looking landscape as these were popular on Facebook last year. This one is based on a view...

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Comfortably Numb

A fourth consecutive painting named after a song title. There's a clip on YouTube of David Gilmour playing a clip of Purple Rain in the middle of...

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Purple Rain

Today's effort is Purple Rain. I was thinking of doing some sort of blizzard scene as I was in the mood to do a moody sky and to flick paint all...

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Twist In My Sobriety

A second painting today and it's another abstract with inks. I was struggling to think of a name for it, so just picked the name of a Tania Tikaram...

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Elephant

I've been thinking for a while about painting an elephant Hazel Soan style and finally got around to it today. The elephant itself was first...

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Horsehead Quarry

I thought I'd try something different. After checking out some Jean Lurssen videos on YouTube I thought I'd invest in some acrylic inks and have a...

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The Old Man Of Storr

It's a double painting day today. This time I've gone for a conventional landscape for the first time in a while.  It's the Old Man of Storr on the...

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Sunshine Through The Brambles

I got the idea for this one yesterday afternoon, staring out of the lounge window as Bradley Walsh was asking "What has the chaser put?"  Not that...

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