<This post was written on June 24 2025 and has been backdated to a more appropriate date> And here we are for the 2024 awards. Once I've...
Annual Award Winners
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....
MikaM, Watching Ross Kemp’s Bridge Of Lies
After yesterday's sterling efforts, I thought I'd take it easy today and do an Inktense pencil figure drawing. It's been a long eleven weeks since...
Annual Awards 2023
<This post was written on June 24 2025 and has been backdated to a more appropriate date> We're on to the 2023 awards and decisions are going...
The Shard
It feels as if the big year end winddown has started. This will be my final painting of the year but probably not my final post. It's based on a...
B. B. King
Today's not a day for watercolours. I tend to do watercolours in bursts of 2-4 successive days and with yesterday being a charcoal day and...
Luana
The builders have finished work today and I have access to the studio again. After a break of a couple of weeks, I was expecting my first couple...
Lance Corporal Jack Jones
Only time for one more portrait today and it's Lance Corporal Jack Jones, played by Clive Dunn. I picked out this portrait because of all...