It's been a while since I last went on a dash & splash so I thought I'd give it a go today. How this works is that I head outside and do some...
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13 September 1999
After yesterday's news that I won't be wildcarding it at LAOTY and the arrival of two new Artgraf colours, today was always going to be an Artgraf...
The Humber Bridge Under Three Different Skies
With one eye on my preferred Landscape Of The Year venue, today was a day to paint another bridge under three different skies. Unfortunately my...
Cammie III
Time to try something new. In that Burne Hogarth book I read about something called sculptural light. It's a light and shade scheme that ignores...
Dynamic Light And Shade, Burne Hogarth – Book Review
This is a book that I've had my eye on for a while. I liked what I'd seen inside the book, including the comprehensive looking contents page. And...
Doctor Zachary Smith
Sometimes I receive messages and I just have to act on them. I had the telly to myself last night and managed to find a 1960 episode of The...
Billy The Kid
I felt like doing a portrait today. I've been doing a lot of landscapes in an attempt to impress LAOTY judges (newsflash: I've not made it to a pod...
Lewes Castle In Blue And Orange
I didn't waste any time sitting around thinking about doing a blue and orange painting and went straight into action this morning with another...
Queendown Warren In Three Complementary Colour Schemes
Not much time to paint again today but I do need to keep in practice. I decided to go for an experimental painting that wouldn't take much...
AnaIv In Artgraf
I only had the energy for a quick painting today, so went for an idea that's been kicking around for a few days. A line drawing using fineliners...
When I’m Paid I Always See The job Through
I can't do too many watercolours in a row without pining for a change of media so I was in the coloured pencils today, doing a portrait of Angel...
The Magic Of Queendown Warren
I wanted to have a go at a painting in the style of those in the Waltraud Nawratil book. I picked another of those views that I see in the North...
Damn You All To Hell!
Now this is a landscape that's been on my to do list for a while. It's the closing scene from the original Planet Of The Apes film back in...
Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin
There was a certain man in Russia long ago. He was big, he was strong, in his eyes a flaming glow. Most people looked at him with terror and with...
And we’re live!
A lot of this is similar to what came before. But will this new website platform make anything better for the visitors? Well: – The blog itself...
2023: Year Of The Portrait
So that was 2023. I think I can safely say 2023 was the year of the portrait. After reading the Bill Maughan book in March, something clicked big...
New Books
Happy Christmas everybody. Unwrapping is over. I'm now making my way through my job list: - squash up all the wrapping paper and put it in the...
Upchurch Art Exhibition 2023
This year's Upchurch art exhibition takes place at St Mary's Church between Friday 17th and Sunday 19th November (11am to 4pm, 10 to 4, 10 to 1)...
The Wishlist
No time to do any painting today but with an empty thirty minutes window going begging, I thought I'd create this post. These are the 24 art books...
Interruptions
No painting going on at the moment as there's a new patio going down. I could get access to the studio if I wanted to but don't fancy painting in...