Only time for one portrait today after that book review and it's my first ever go at Doctor McCoy, played by DeForest Kelley. It's him but it's...
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Facial Expressions For Artists, Oliver Sin – Book Review
While this bathroom's being fitted, I'm not just painting portraits with the markers: I thought I'd also get some CPD in, so I've been reading this...
Kirk
Number 4 in the collection is Captain Kirk, played by William Shatner. Bill joins Gregg Allman, Warren Haynes, Big Sam Allardyce and me in the...
Rand
I realised last night that the nine in this collection will comprise three each of red shirts, blue shirts and green shirts. So that makes my...
Sulu
Second in the collection is Mr Sulu, played by George Takei. It looks like the first layer of colour is yellow but it's actually lime green. ...
Spock
These are tricky times. We're having one of our bathrooms done up over the next week or two and this means I'm not able to spend as much time in...
View From River Cottage
Back in action today with a soft pastel landscape. I understand that there's a view of this gate from Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's River Cottage...
Robbie Williams
Someone put up a post on LinkedIn today about Robbie Williams and I realised immediately that he'd make a great portrait subject and am kicking...
Edith Keeler
Star Trek's on five night a week on Legend Xtra at the moment and has already inspired one painting. Tonight's episode is The City On The Edge Of...
EvaE In Oil Pastel
I thought I'd better give the oil pastels an outing while the weather is still cold enough for them to not melt. And with all my landscapes being...
Clifton Suspension Bridge
This week's LAOTY was in Bristol with a view of Clifton Suspension Bridge. It was the episode that I picked out when applying unsuccessfully to be...
Dave Best
Another portrait today for the benefit of those lovely PAOTY judges. Today's subject is Dave Best from The Royle Family, played by the great comedy...
Lemmy Kilmister
Someone put up a post on LinkedIn the other day (hi Steve!) asking people what song makes them turn up the volume on the radio. Looking down the...
What Are Little Girls Made Of?
Today's subject matter is a still from Star Trek TOS. It's a still from What Are Little Girls Made, featuring Sherry Jackson and Ted Cassidy as the...
The Strangest Man
I've been reading The Strangest Man by Graham Farmelo, the biography of mathematical physicist Paul Dirac, someone I've painted before. Looking at...
Hartlip Church In Soft Pastel
Another of my paintings was sold at the Rose & Crown the other day, so I thought I'd better do another local landscape. This is a painting of...
Big Daddy And Giant Haystacks
Back in the 1970s we had this "thing" called professional wrestling. It was a pantomime-esquire acting performance dressed up like a sporting...
Eilean Donan Castle, Dornie
Back to soft pastel landscapes again, and to coming up with a set of submissions for Landscape Artist Of The Year. Looking through the huge set of...
Alan Davies
Right, time to get down to some proper work and to produce some posterised paintings that will impress the Portrait Artist Of The Year judges when...
The Singular Death Of Morton
Still too many things going on at the moment for me to have much time to paint but I did have the time today to give the Inktense pencils a...