With one page left in my rough watercolourpaper block and that page starting to come away at the edges, I wanted to do another watercolour today...
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What Happens In Manchester Stays In Manchester
Yesterday was a day for oil pastels, so I took a look through the box of CDs that I currently have out in the studio, seeking potential portrait...
Joe Strummer
I'm back from the Upchurch art exhibition now and my studio's all back to normal. I only sold the one painting, The Happiest Days Of Our Lives...
Fame
I was feeling watercoloured out today and in the mood for a different medium, so went for the oil pastels. I wanted to draw a portrait and was...
John Lydon
I wasn’t planning on doing a watercolour today but I found a photo of John Lydon that was just begging to be painted in Liz Chaderton style. In...
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...
Eric Clapton, 1970
I've had loads of chores to do Sunday and Monday, leaving only a couple sessions available for painting. So I went for a coloured pencil portrait...
Jerry Garcia And Bob Weir, Copenhagen 1972
With all this coloured pencil jamming I've been doing lately, I've been playing a lot of Grateful Dead. YouTube has obviously gotten wind of this,...
Jerry Garcia
I had a chance to do some painting today, so thought I'd better take it. This was painted in the garden, but the original drawing went down at my...
Warren Haynes
I'm back to the coloured pencils today after a day off to check out potential garden art studios. I just think I need a few more coloured pencil...
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...
Neil Young In Coloured Pencil
I've had a couple of days off doing a bit of retirement planning but am back on the painting again now. After discovering how my figure drawing...
David Gilmour
Back on the coloured pencils and I thought I'd try doing a portrait of David Gilmour. I tried something different today: as well as using a grid,...
Gregg Allman
There was no way I was going to stop at Cher, so I moved on to Gregg. I wanted something that would contrast Cher's chiaroscuro against a coloured...
Cher
Before I head back to watercolours tomorrow, I thought I really should give the marker pens a quick go. So I googled for black and white celebrity...
Pale Horse Rider
OK, so I was in an Allman Betts Band mood today. After painting Devon Allman, I thought I should really also paint Duane Betts. But the best...
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...
Jimi Hendrix
I have two watercolour blocks here, so straight after drawing Neil Young (and before painting him) I grabbed my other block and drew Jimi Hendrix....
Neil Young
Dear oh dear. After the successes of Duane and Big Sam, I felt confident enough to have a go at this style of drawing on watercolour paper and...
Cathy Jean
Back to the inktense pencils and figure drawing. All these different artistic styles and media are like spinning plates and if I don't keep...