And here we are for the 2024 awards. Once I've finished this post I'll be up to date. With 2024 being the year that I frost used crystalline...
Annual Award Winners
Annual Awards 2023
We're on to the 2023 awards and decisions are going to be a lot more difficult. There are some masterpieces that aren't going to win prizes. ...
Annual Awards 2022
Two more awards this time: coloured pencils and Artgraf. We're up to 14. The winners in this year feel like a bit of a letdown considering how...
Annual Awards 2021
One more award to add to the list, with oil pastels now joining the party. Marker Painting Of The Year: Doctor Richard Maunder Inktense...
Annual Awards 2020
It's 2020 and this is starting to become a serious event. There are now eleven awards to hand out, with markers, inktense pencils, figure paintings...
Annual Awards 2019
OK, here come the 2019 awards. There's a Portrait Of The Year for the first time. And there's a lot more competition for landscape and watercolour...
Annual Awards 2018
I was thinking ahead today to my year end hiatus and thinking that I really should end the year with an awards ceremony, choosing my best painting...
Oliver Reed
I’ve had a photo of Oliver Reed as Bill Sikes in Oliver! sitting around for a while waiting to be painted and today was the day when I was finally...
Islay Beach Cottage
After reading the Robert Brindley book, I was itching to get started on a new soft pastel painting. I picked out a view of a cottage for rent on...
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Ok, so I've painted Devon Allman, Duane Allman, Eric Clapton, Allen Collins, Jerry Garcia, Billy Gibbons, David Gilmour, Warren Haynes. Jimi...
Bunnahabhain Distillery
I'm still making my way through my birthday presents but it isn't new art gear today: it's a new malt. An 18 year old Bunnahabhain from Islay...
Paul Auster
I started this one last night and finished it this morning. It's unusual for me to spread something over two days. It's because I started late...
Queendown Warren: Rain On The Way
Sometimes my choice of what to paint is based on some really weird reasons. Today I looked the box of CDs I have in the studio and thought it would...
Bruce Frederickson
Next in the queue for meds at Nurse Ratched's booth is Bruce Frederickson, played by Vincent Schiavelli. He doesn't say or do much in the film but...
Three Famous Gunslingers
<Edit: The day after I painted and posted this one I found that I'd screwed up. The guy on the right is Frank James, not Virgil Earp. That...
The City
After yesterday's experimentation I wanted to use all the lessons from it as quickly as possible, so that's what I've been doing today. I started...
Lewes Castle
Here's a question for you. Who had a UK number one in the 1979s with D.I.V.O.R.C.E.? Good guess but you're wrong. It was Billy Connolly with a...
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. To see the price, click here.
Gary Moore
After managing to capture the face that Warren Haynes pulls when he hits a high note, I thought I'd thought I'd try a repeat performance by...
John Lydon In Oil Pastel
It was a tough call over who to paint today. ChatGPT wasn't able to come up with any celebrities I'd ever heard of whose birthday it was today....