Today's painting is a portrait of Joe Walsh of The Eagles, someone who in his heyday was probably even more fun at parties than Frank Bough....
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Frank Bough
Of all the celebrities ever to have been disgraced after being caught in a tabloid sting, Frank Bough is the most likely to raise a smile and the...
M2 Medway Crossing Under Three Different Skies
So here’s the thing. I need to put my Landscape Artist Of The Year entry together by around the end of April. My best landscape over the last...
Brian Clough’s Finger
I thought I'd have a go at painting Brian Clough today. It was always going to happen at some point. I had a choice between source photos and...
Ardbeg Distillery
I'm back to painting distilleries. Today it's the Ardbeg Distillery on the island of Islay. I've deviated a bit from my normal rule here as I...
Cammie II
After two days out on the road with the watercolours, today's weather forecast was more than welcome and I've been painting in ten studio while the...
Towards Leysdown-On-Sea
The weather forecast was for quite a mild day with no rain, so I packed up for another plein air trip. Today I felt like a trip to the seaside and...
Rochester Castle From The Cathedral
For the first time in 2024, the weather forecast was warm enough and dry enough for me to venture out painting. Like a very bad penalty taker I...
Ponte Delle Tette, Venice
I started this coloured pencil painting yesterday and finished it today. It's a bridge in Venice and one that gets its name from how prostitutes...
A Clockwork Orange
Another watercolour today. This is based on a publicity shot for A Clockwork Orange, a famous 1971 Stanley Kubrick film. With the white face and...
Third Court Room, Christ’s College
Back to Christ's College tidy for another indoor landscape. This is a room in Third Court, probably in Y staircase. My third year room was in W...
Colours On The Path, Queendown Warren
Once again I'm letting the iPad tell me what to paint. Today it was telling me to paint a landscape using the Artgraf blocks but to put down dry...
Katlyn
I asked the iPad again for a painting idea and it suggested I paint a figure in oil pastels, so that's what I've done today. This is Katlyn,...
Cornelius
Ok so, as I said last time, I asked the spreadsheet on the iPad what to paint next it told me to paint a portrait using the Shire supergranulators...
The Avengers 1965-67
And here they are together, Steed and Mrs Peel. They go quite brilliantly together and are up for sale as a pair.
Mrs Emma Peel
It was always going to happen. Steed needed a partner. I decided to go for Mrs Peel, a character that was sure to make a great painting. After...
Major The Hon. John Wickham Gascoyne Beresford Steed
This one took me a couple of days but it was worth it. I picked out John Steed as played by the late Patrick MacNee in The Avengers and The New...
Heading Home, Queendown Warren
I wanted to try something different today. I've had a go at doing a conventional landscape painting in three glazes using the Notanizer app. The...
Vasquez Rocks
Today I'm back to old ways, not just painting a landscape but also allowing colours to mix on the paper and in the palette rather than just...
The Buttery, Christ’s College
Today I'm back to painting after a few days off getting my feet under the table in a correspondence chess tournament. And I'm back with another of...