Annual Award Winners

Doctor Richard Maunder

Second up in the Christ's Maths Fellows 1982-86 collection is Richard Maunder.  This guy was an absolute legend.  He was a pure mathematician, into...

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Hartlip Church In The Snow

A month or so ago, someone from the village church was asking about the possibility of me painting something they could use for the church's...

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Artistic Left Eye

It seems the best way to learn how to use oil pastels is to watch videos on YouTube.  Today I watched Scrooge The Profit describing the rule of...

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Long Gone

I was flicking through one of my Jean Haines books last night for inspiration and decided to do something in her style today.  the subject matter...

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Michael, Kneeling

There really needs to be a Sky Naked Figure Drawing Of The Year program.  I'm sure I could make a decent crack of it.  Inktense pencils are the...

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Time

This run of village paintings is all very well but if I don't vary things around a bit, I'll settle into a rut and never get any better.  So I...

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Annual Awards 2020

<This post was written on June 24 2025 and has been backdated to a more appropriate date> It's 2020 and this is starting to become a serious...

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NMA Model 15

Today's model doesn't even have a name.  She's Model 15 from the New Masters Academy.  Great pose though. The idea behind this one was to make it...

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I Am The Eye In The Sky

  So, AA, when are we going to see what you're doing with that painting of an eye from the other day? And why is it exactly that you're needing to...

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The Sneer

Oh dear.  A portrait of Zinedine Zidane in inktense pencils that went horribly wrong. The worst thing about it is the mouth.  Oh and the general...

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The Rush Collection

And here's the complete set together.  It may even surpass the chess player set that I thought was my opus magnus. It's up for sale. To see the...

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Geddy Lee

Time for another set of marker portraits.  I've done chess, physics and westerns, so it's time to start on another passion: music. This is Geddy...

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The Glamour Of The Snow

I thought a bit of watercolour painting was overdue, so I've been out there this morning running off this little number.  The thunder started as I...

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Annual Awards 2019

<This post was written on June 24 2025 and has been backdated to a more appropriate date> OK, here come the 2019 awards. There's a Portrait...

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Father And Son

That review of Drawing On The Right Side Of The Brain is coming soon, I promise!

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DNA

And here's the second of the day.  This is all out abstract.  I cracklepasted a board a couple of days ago (with watercolour ground applied to the...

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Bramble’s

Today's job was to prepare a couple of experimental crackle paste surfaces to use later in the week but I found myself pining to do some painting,...

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Broken

It's been brewing for a while but I finally went to the shops yesterday to buy a transparent warm (orangey) red as a potential replacement for the...

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