I'm addicted to the chess at the moment and it's come through in a couple of ways in today's painting. First there's the subject matter and the...
Other Subjects
Blobby Blobby Blobby
I've been told I need to do some more fish paintings. And that fish in the posterised trippy scheme work better than fish in the posterised tundra...
Here He Comes
Tuesday's angelfish went so well that I thought I'd have mother go at a camouflaged fish in posterised style. This could end up becoming a series...
Sweet Angel
Number one son was asking whether I’d ever painted a fish. I think he was hoping to be able to give a fish painting as a present for two of his...
Well, I’d Sooner Forget, But I Remember Those Nights
Today's painting is inspired by the graphic novels of Chris Ware. Chris's books are like well directed films. He can say so much with...
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...
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...
Yes, And They Say We’re Gonna Have To Pay What’s Owed
So here's azo orange's debut painting. I went for a triple painting as I wanted to see how the orange would work with the cerulean blue and a...
The Artistic Actuary Comic Cover Gallery
I'd seen a few posts on LinkedIn where people had used ChatGPT to create images of action figures of themselves, bubble wrapped in fancy packaging...
Keeping His Promise
I've not done much painting this year. It's partly due to having too many other distractions and partly due to the days still feeling too short....
Highland Cow
Somebody local who works with number two son in the kitchen at the Rose & Crown expressed an interest in buying a painting of a highland cow if...
The Touch Of Pan
Something a bit different today. This frying pan was going to be thrown out and replaced so I thought I'd grab it and paint it. if I was doing...
Flatter To Deceive
I've finally gotten around to completing my Planets collection with a portrait of Earth. I don't know why this has taken so long because I've had...
Saturn
I really do need to finish my collection of planet paintings at some point so I'm back on the case today with Saturn. For a while my plan had been...
Venus And The Petrova Line
I'm back on the planets again and today it's Venus. It took me a long time to come up with an idea about how to make a painting of Venus a bit...
Uranus
After a bit of a break, I'm back on the planets again. Today it's Uranus. All eight planets revolve around the sun in roughly the same plane and...
Mercury
Today's planet is Mercury, sharing its name with the messenger of the Roman gods and therefore deserving of a pair or wings. For the three colours...
The Face Of Mars
Another day, another planet. My latest idea for planet paintings (to go with the ideas of random surrealness and Roman gods) is to think about...
Jupiter And Io
Seventeen days since my last watercolour and I'm finally back. The idea for this one popped into my head while out on my walk yesterday. I've no...
The Good, The Bad And The Ugly: The Collection
And here they are, all together. As I expected, their positives as a set are greater than the sum of their individual positives. They're up for...