June's been busy and my artwork has slows down to a crawl: this is only my fourth painting of the month and we're already at the 16th. And the...
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Chrissie Hynde
Life's busy right now, and that's even before the World Cup has started. Today's only the third chance I've had this month to paint and the next...
Expressive CharlieK
I've got a GP appointment in the diary for later this afternoon, so went for an inktense figure so that I wouldn’t feel rushed. It's a fourth...
Electric Ladyland
It's a figure painting today. My third of the month, so I thought I'd better try something vaguely experimental. I thought I'd have another go at a...
Mark Knopfler
Today I have been mostly painting a portrait of Mark Knopfler. As one of my all time favourite guitarists, it's criminal that I've not painted him...
I Still Don’t Know Which Way To Go To Lose Those Old Spud Blues
Despite the heat I was in the mood for oil pastels today. My oil pastels are in a box too big to fit in a drawer so they live in a shady spot...
Trust The Process
It's a crystalline watercolour portrait painting today. I followed my usual process by: creating a three value plan using the Notanizer...
Love Or Confusion
Another hot day and there's some football on later but I've had too many days off during May. So I've gone for something fast and relaxing. It...
The Grateful Dead, 1965-67
A little research tells me I now have enough portraits to be able to put together a complete Grateful Dead lineup. This group of five made up the...
Bill Kreutzmann
Because it was so hot today, I went for a simple three value posterised portrait in the trippy colour scheme. It didn’t push my boundaries or...
The Terror Of The Twins
This one's taken a few days. On Friday, I prepared an underpainting. I wet the paper and covered it in all five Shire colours plus green apatite...
I Don’t Like Cricket, I Love It
After too long a break, I was finally back to painting today. I thought I'd have a go at coming up with something in the style of Trevor Waugh...
Bruce Lee
I caught about fifteen minutes of Enter The Dragon a couple of nights ago and was transfixed. All artists should watch films late at night. Not...
Easy Blue(s)
I'm not normally a great fan but I was watching the snooker last night and witnessed a great match. It went to the very last frame and I promised...
A Sleek New Look And A New Curator
It's taken me four days to do this but I've finished sleekifying this website. It seems that every time I thought I was finishes, I'd walk away...
PeachK II
A late start today after deciding, on this morning's walk, to make some more changes to the new search widget on this website. So I went for a...
I Guess I Need That City Life, It Sure Has Lots Of Style
Today's painting, needless to say, is inspired by another photo by Olly Crook. All those dark areas including human silhouettes, the interesting...
Mike Pratt
I was out of ideas today so took a look through all the photos I've been saving up for potential portraits. I came across a photo of the late actor...
I’ve Seen Desparation Explode Into Flames
I thought I deserved a treat today, so I've been working on my favourite subject with a self portrait. It's only my left eye, painted in oil...
I Don’t Like To Go Down To The Flats
Back on the road again. But now that my pastel-based application to Landscape Artist Of The Year has been rejected I'm not feeling obliged to paint...