The dust has finally settled and I can reveal that there were four art books in my birthday stash this year. Here they all are. All four will be...
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Ozzy Osbourne
Today it's the late Ozzy Osbourne of Black Sabbath who does a week ago just 17 days after performing in his farewell concert. I picked out this...
We’re Gonna Have To Reap From Some Seed That’s Been Sowed
Guess who it is? It's the Coldplay Couple! For the benefit of future me reading this in ten years time, this is a couple of married people having...
Watercolour And Beyond, David Bellamy – Book Review
And here's the first of my birthday books to be reviewed. It's a 160 page paperback. It arrived on Monday and took me five evenings to read,...
2025 Birthday Stash: More Crystalline Watercolours
More birthday art gear stash. I was given some cash and spent a big chunk of it on some more crystalline watercolours. I have five new colours:...
Freedom
Right, time to give the huge set of 125 oil pastels a workout. I picked a view in Queendown Warren. I don't think it's a view I see on my daily...
2025 Birthday Stash: Oil Pastels
It's that time of year again. And today I was delighted to receive this set of 125 Sennelier oil pastels, a big numerical upgrade on my existing...
The Duchess
Today's subject is The Duchess, vocalist in the band Space Elevator. I picked a source photo in which she was wearing a stripy top as these tend...
Little Wing
Just a portrait of a giraffe today, albeit one with a bird attached to its neck. This one was inspired by a holiday photo in Zimbabwe by Derek, an...
Telegraph Road Got So Deep And So Wide
Still quite hot today but after Tuesday's painting got a lot of praise on LinkedIn, I wanted to keep going, so today I've been sweating it out over...
Bob Weir
July has been too hot for painting. I've made it home from my morning walks and not had the energy to do anything other than read a book. From...
A Trip To The Tate Modern
It's still too hot for me to be painting so I thought I'd keep the blog ticking over with a report on my trip to the Tate Modern yesterday. The...
Recognition II
Gary Delaney has spotted his portrait and has some nice things to say.
One Rainy Wish
July is looking like a slow month. There's just too much sun at the moment; I get back from my morning walk and I'm to trashed to paint. This is...
The Black Hills
I've had twelve paintings up on the wall of the restaurant at the Rose & Crown for a while now. Occasionally the odd one is sold but the...
Ned’s Ghost
I was saddened to hear yesterday about the death of Wayne Larkins, an aggressive English batsman from the 1970s and 1980s. If he'd been playing in...
Hedy Lamarr
Today's painting is a portrait of the actress Hedy Lamarr. I saw a photo of her and the highlights and shadows were just screaming out to be...
The Wrong Kind Of Snow
After all that fun yesterday with the tundra supergranulators, I was ready to give them another go today, with another snowy mountain scene but one...
Built A Cabin And A Winter Store
In an attempt to tick off another line from Telegraph Road, I was Googling cabins in Greenland and came across a photo of a couple of cabins (or...
You Can Hear Them Singing Out Their Telegraph Code
It's a landscape with the soft pastels today, and it's just the sort of landscape I enjoy painting with this medium. There's lots of sky, a big...