Category: All Artwork

Abstract Beginnings

Yesterday I kicked off an abstract painting.  I put on some masking tape and some directional masking fluid spatters.  Then laid on some nice thick...

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Wisteria Cottage, Hartlip

Still on the Hartlip landscapes and today it's Wisteria Cottage.  Not that I can see much wisteria there if any. The main three colours today were...

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Craiglea And Sanquhar, Hartlip

It's freezing outside so I only have one painting to add to the Hartlip collection today.  I picked this pair of cottages because they were white....

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The Street, Hartlip

Two paintings in one day!  It's as if the hardest bit about painting is the planning and that creating a painting that's already been planned is so...

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Thatch Cottage, Hartlip

And here it is, the first of a series of paintings based on my home village of Hartlip.  This is Thatch Cottage, a cottage that's been rethatched...

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Cathy Jean

Back to the inktense pencils and figure drawing. All these different artistic styles and media are like spinning plates and if I don't keep...

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Valdeinfierno In Purple And Orange

That last painting, The Thin Ice, felt like a flop to me but got lots of likes on Facebook and on DeviantArt.  The only good thing it had going for...

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The Thin Ice

After the disaster that was The Brimham Rocks, I wasn't happy.  I wanted to chase the frustrations out of my system by bashing out a second...

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The Brimham Rocks

Today's subject is The Brimham Rocks, a rock formation somewhere near Harrogate in North Yorkshire.  My rocky paintings have been pretty good this...

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Richard Feynman

I had another read of my Charles Reid book last night (Painting By Design) and saw a couple of his videos  on YouTube this morning, so thought it...

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Moose On The Phoenix Trail

Reading that George Blacklock book during the week I started to think about how artists like Dali, Mageitte and Blacklock himself have common theme...

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The Old Man Of Tarsuinn

Today's subject is the Old Man of Tarsuinn, another rocky formation but this time closer to home on the Isle of Arran. Looking through my swatch...

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The Hoodoo Watch

The weather was good enough today to spend a bit of time painting properly in the garden.  The subject matter is a set of hoodoos.  These are weird...

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Life On Venus

I needed to do some painting this week.  I enjoy doing portraits with markers and figure drawing with inktense pencils but painting is my bread and...

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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...

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Tom Holland

Before I talk about this one, a big hello to anyone that's here for the first time after seeing my brief appearance on Landscape Artist Of The...

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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...

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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...

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