Today it's the late Ozzy Osbourne of Black Sabbath who does a week ago just 17 days after performing in his farewell concert. I picked out this...
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We’re Gonna Have To Reap From Some Seed That’s Been Sowed
Guess who it is? It's the Coldplay Couple! For the benefit of future me reading this in ten years time, this is a couple of married people having...
Freedom
Right, time to give the huge set of 125 oil pastels a workout. I picked a view in Queendown Warren. I don't think it's a view I see on my daily...
The Duchess
Today's subject is The Duchess, vocalist in the band Space Elevator. I picked a source photo in which she was wearing a stripy top as these tend...
Little Wing
Just a portrait of a giraffe today, albeit one with a bird attached to its neck. This one was inspired by a holiday photo in Zimbabwe by Derek, an...
Telegraph Road Got So Deep And So Wide
Still quite hot today but after Tuesday's painting got a lot of praise on LinkedIn, I wanted to keep going, so today I've been sweating it out over...
Bob Weir
July has been too hot for painting. I've made it home from my morning walks and not had the energy to do anything other than read a book. From...
One Rainy Wish
July is looking like a slow month. There's just too much sun at the moment; I get back from my morning walk and I'm to trashed to paint. This is...
The Black Hills
I've had twelve paintings up on the wall of the restaurant at the Rose & Crown for a while now. Occasionally the odd one is sold but the...
Ned’s Ghost
I was saddened to hear yesterday about the death of Wayne Larkins, an aggressive English batsman from the 1970s and 1980s. If he'd been playing in...
Hedy Lamarr
Today's painting is a portrait of the actress Hedy Lamarr. I saw a photo of her and the highlights and shadows were just screaming out to be...
The Wrong Kind Of Snow
After all that fun yesterday with the tundra supergranulators, I was ready to give them another go today, with another snowy mountain scene but one...
Built A Cabin And A Winter Store
In an attempt to tick off another line from Telegraph Road, I was Googling cabins in Greenland and came across a photo of a couple of cabins (or...
You Can Hear Them Singing Out Their Telegraph Code
It's a landscape with the soft pastels today, and it's just the sort of landscape I enjoy painting with this medium. There's lots of sky, a big...
Let Not The Sun
After finishing the Carrie McKenzie book, I thought I'd better have a go at a landscape using the crystalline watercolour. I picked a view along...
Just Believe In Me Baby And I’ll Take You Away
After Galen went so well earlier this month, I thought I'd have another go with the Artgraf blocks. This time, though, it's a figure painting. The...
He Made A Home In The Wilderness
It's back to landscapes and to soft pastels today. This is neither WW2 pillbox, this time on the Wales Coast Path in Pembrey, Carmarthenshire. So...
People Driving Home From The Factories
Today was a good day for a long painting after getting out really early to go for my walk before the temperature got too high. And when things did...
Police Chief Clancy O’Hara
My plan today was to give the potters' pink a good workout and, in particular, to use some of the more interesting mixes it makes with some of the ...
Planet Of The Apes (TV Series) Series
These three look pretty good together. We have: Galen, in Artgraf Urko in crystalline watercolour Doctor Zaius in watercolour All...