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 Award Winners
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...
The Mukurob (Finger Of God)
So after finishing Hazel Soan's African Watercolours I wanted to strike while the iron was hot and paint something influenced by the book. For...
Miriam In Inktense Pencil
After three days off at Upchurch art and craft fair and a day off chilling on Monday (for which read housework, daily German lesson, daily four...
The Good, The Bad And The Ugly: The Collection
And here they are, all together. As I expected, their positives as a set are greater than the sum of their individual positives. They're up for...
Il Brutto
So here's part 3 of 3 and that's the collection complete. Tuco followed the same methodology as the previous two paintings so, what I did (and I'm...
I Can Read Your Mind
So I had the first chance in a while to do some undisturbed painting in the studio. Well I say that but in reality I only started at 2pm and had...
Zaza
I'm back on the Artgraf paints today for a number of reasons. It's pouring with rain outside for a start. And I'm a little bit distracted by the...
Annual Self Portrait 2023
It's that time of year when a certain job comes up. It's time for the annual self portrait, something that I've been looking forward to for a...
‘Andles For Forks
And here's today's second painting. It's Candle as the model again and this is her fourth appearance. This time it's my second attempt at using...
Adil Rashid
My third successive cricket portrait and they've all been in different media. Today it's the first outing for markers since last winter. I picked...
David Bowie
In the mood for a coloured pencil drawing today, so looked at the CD collection and decided to go for Bowie. The CD collection is pretty good...
CharlieK’s Back
I won't be going outside to paint during this latest heatwave, so I'm back on the coloured pencils and doing some figure drawing: my first go with...
Another Corner Of Stonehenge
It's June 21, the Summer Solstice, so I'm back to Stonehenge again. In a lot of ways, this followed a similar process to my previous painting, but...
Blackpool Pleasure Beach
My second episode as a wildcard at Landscape Artist Of The Year was screened in February 2023 but here's what I had to say after filming in June...
Wake Up Kevin!
The second series of Drawers Off started on Channel & this week. I didn’t watch much of the first series: requiring the artists to all take...
The Wall Of Rochester Castle
I've had a day out at Rochester Castle today. I had plans to head out Eastwards but the M2 is apparently closed in that direction, so I took on...