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...
Annual Award Winners
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...
I See A Red Door And I Want It Painted Black
Where do I start with this one? Well, I’ve been thinking of doing something like this all week, dividing the paper up and doing lots of little...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Father And Son
That review of Drawing On The Right Side Of The Brain is coming soon, I promise!
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...
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,...
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...
Once Upon A Time In The West
After the rubbish that I put out yesterday, I was determined to paint an ink-free watercolour again as soon as possible but to do it properly,...
Winter Roots
And for my second painting today, I thought I'd just throw everything on the paper and see what came out. Here's what I ended up with. I started...
Annual Awards 2018
<This post was written on June 24 2025 and has been backdated to a more appropriate date> I was thinking ahead today to my year end hiatus...
The Searchers
1 August 2018 Looking at feedback so far, people seemed to like paintings of outer space or Westerns or paintings with people in them. So I...
Ugly Forest Path
30 July 2018 This was based on a picture on a birthday card. It was a good choice of subject material. But, as you can see, the execution was...