Today it's soft pastels. These feel more like a summer medium than a winter medium and, with oil pastels being best suited to the winter, the two...
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Burning Of The Midnight Lamp
Yesterday's painting took a while and left me a little drained so I was tempted to take a day off today but I have a physio class tomorrow that...
Peter Wyngarde
Time for another posterised watercolour portrait in an attempt to impress the PAOTY judges. This is the late actor Peter Wyngarde who specialised...
Painting What You Want To See, Charles Reid – Book Review
And here's yet another book review. This wasn't a Christmas present - just a book that suddenly became available brand new at a sensible price on...
NadiaR
I thought I'd just chill out today with an inktense figure painting rather than focusing on impressing Artist Of The Year judges. Today's subject...
The Pastel Book, Bill Creevy – Book Review
Here's the third of the three art books I got for Christmas. It's a 176 page long paperback. I was attracted to it not just by the positive reviews...
Rainy Day, Dream Away
It's another oil pastel landscape today. I found a photo online of the arch that connects Hartlip Church to the orchards behind it. It's an arch...
(Buckingham Nicks Era) Fleetwood Mac
Of course one good reason for painting John McVie is that I now have completed Buckingham-Nicks era Fleetwood Mac lineup. I'm still a Danny Kirwan...
John McVie
I’m still looking to come up with stuff in the same style as my Artist Of The Year submissions and that will hopefully impress any visiting judges....
Christine McVie And Lindsey Buckingham
Time to kick off the portrait season and to start impressing any visiting PAOTY judges. Today's subjects are former Fleetwood Mac members Christine...
Watercolour Techniques For The Artist, Richard Pikesley- Book Review
Here's the second of the three books that I got for Christmas. It's a book on watercolours by Richard Pikesley, a 160 page paperback. People only...
Foxy Lady
And now the Artist Of The Year run up starts. I need to building up my collection of watercolour portraits and pastel landscapes for PAOTY and...
Krys II
As I said yesterday, after a couple of landscape paintings featuring the tundra supergranulators, I needed to do something different before a...
Seven Local Landscapes
It's the new year. Welcome to 2026. My year end hiatus is officially over and I'm back into action. As usual, I needed to rattle out a no...
Portrait Revolution, Julia Kay – Book Review
So here's the first book review from my Christmas stash. Being in a post-Christmas slump, I started with a book that was all about inspiration...
The 2025 Artistic Actuary Video
Now that all my 2025 artwork is in the public domain, it's time to release the 2025 video. As usual, everything in portrait format gets a harsh...
The 2026 Christmas Haul
Not much to report this year. I have these three new books: reviews to follow in due course. And some silicone mats that I can use to paint at my...
Annual Awards 2025
It's time for the 2025 annual awards. Just like last year, there are seventeen prizes to hand out and lots of brilliant paintings will be going...
Chateau De Villeneuve De Milhac
It's the 16th of December now and I should be settling into my year end hiatus, sitting back, reading books, watching Westerns and reflecting on...
Portrait Artist Of The Year 2026 Entry
That's one more pre-Christmas job out of the way. I've put in my entry for Portrait Artist Of The Year. I've gone for watercolours again. The...