I've saved the best until last, and here it is. Goldfinch On Cheese. It's quite a normal landscape compared to the other two paintings but it's...
Other Subjects
We’re Going To The Zoo Zoo Zoo
And here's my second of the day. The big mistake I made on this one was to paint over everything with watercolour ground. It ruined the sky...
It’s Quiet Out There…Too Quiet
So, as I said, I've been cutting up failed paintings And reassembling the best bits into new works of art. I've cone up with three new works. ...
Bubble Horse Horse Bubble
It's a bank holiday, the sun's out and I'm back on the watercolours for the first time in months. I've been pining for orange over the last couple...
Different Tables
I'm still at Medway Services and thought I'd carry on drawing when I saw this guy in green arrive. He looked a bit sad in that beanie and had an...
Costa Coffee, Medway Services, 19 February, 2020
Off to a different Costa Coffee this time - one overlooking the M2. Rather than lots of little vignettes I thought I'd try some bigger pictures...
Costa Coffee, Hempstead Valley, 12 February 2020
I spent a bit of time in Costa this morning practicing furtively drawing people at speed. I concentrated on getting lines down and added the...
View Of Cafe Nero From Costa
I'm in London today, off to see Tedeschi Trucks Band and Blackberry Smoke at Wembley Arena. Should be good. Anyway, I thought I'd take the...
Day Trip To Canterbury
I nipped into Canterbury today for lunch with an old work colleague and thought I'd make a day of it by getting there early and giving the markers...
Drawing On The Right Side Of The Brain – Progress Update
I still have one book from my birthday left to read and review. It's Drawing On The Right Side Of The Brain by Betty Edwards. I'm about 40% of...
DNA
And here's the second of the day. This is all out abstract. I cracklepasted a board a couple of days ago (with watercolour ground applied to the...
Key Street, Florida
First things first. This painting was inspired by a photo by Harvey Jones that I saw on the BBC website. He has a Flickr account...
Stormy Abstract
And here's my second effort of the day. Another with a specially prepared crackle paste surface. This time, the special guest in the surface was...
Blue Skye
After reading that Jane Betteridge book, I thought it was time to start painting on some unusual surfaces. First up was painting on a map. I...
Shell Ginger
I thought I'd have a ago at some Jean Haines style painting today by painting a shell ginger flower. The flowers are white on the outside and...
Hondo
I thought it was about time I did another Western silhouette painting as they're always popular. Today's painting is based on a still from Hondo, a...
Broken
It's been brewing for a while but I finally went to the shops yesterday to buy a transparent warm (orangey) red as a potential replacement for the...
He Knows, Doctor, He Knows
I'd had a couple of requests to paint a Star Trek scene and this is what I came up with. It's based on a shot near the end of The City At The Edge...
Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid
And here's today's second painting. This one really is a Western. For once it's an action scene rather than a pose. I'm going to claim that I've...
Invasion!
I'm doing two paintings today. Both are based on photos transcribed onto paper by dividing them into grids. Both have the figures masked out, the...