OK, let's do a proper painting today. It's been a while. I found a photo of actress Suzanne Danielle in such a high key that I thought I could...
Portraits
Angels In Chains
A little bit more time to spend on painting today, so a day off from painting figures. But I'm still not feeling free enough to be able to...
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...
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...
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...
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...
My Name Is Michael Caine
Today's portrait subject is Sir Michael Caine. I saw a few minutes of him the other night in a film called The Great Escaper, a film he starred in...
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...
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...
Meghan Parnell
I've been feeling portrait withdrawal symptoms, so I'm back to what I enjoy most today. This is Meghan Parnell, vocalist in Bywater Call. According...
I Don’t Live Today
Mondays are always busy for me and I wasn't planning on doing a painting. But with three days of chess coming up, I thought I should prepare...
Smile You Son Of A Bitch
It's a rest day in the FIDE masters and, with no chess to watch, I've been 100% focused on painting. Today's subject is Roy Scheider starring as...
Got The Rain In My Face
The FIDE Candidates tournament is on at the moment and I'm already addicted after three of the fourteen rounds. So I'm watching the chess all...
Sean Lock
Today I've been painting a portrait of the late Sean Lock. It's a posterised painting using the trippy colour scheme and following my usual process...
Country Home Guitar Solo
The coloured pencils have taken a back seat for a while now, so time to give them an opportunity to do their stuff. I was watching a YouTube video...
Paul Merson
I started off intending to keep pressing my case for PAOTY but halfway through this one got the rejection email. It will be at least another year...
Big Ron Atkinson
Got or keep going with these posterised portraits. Twelve days to go before the PAOTY lineup is announced. Looking through my waiting list of...