Today's painting is the second, after The Transfer, to be inspired by a photo taken by my mate Olly on his recent holiday in Portugal. Whisper it,...
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The Tatra Mountains, Slovakia
More watercolour! More European mountains! More Slovakia? No. Let me stop you there. These mountains are in Slovakia; yesterdays were in...
The Lane That Ran East And West
After seeing none of my portraits selling at the Upchurch art & craft exhibition over the weekend, discussing a couple of landscape exhibiting...
The Transfer
Today's painting is based on a photo taken by an old friend Olly while (I believe) on holiday in Portugal. He did it had an Edward Hopper feel to...
The Studio
I wandered around the village for a while looking for a subject for my third dash & splash. I wanted to find a drawing spot in the shade as the...
Hartlip War Memorial
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...
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...
Windsor Castle
Another watercolour landscape today and another one completed not long after lunch. Â I can feel myself settling into a routine of painting in the...
Lewes Castle
Here's a question for you. Â Who had a UK number one in the 1979s with D.I.V.O.R.C.E.? Â Good guess but you're wrong. Â It was Billy Connolly with a...
Flatter To Deceive
I've finally gotten around to completing my Planets collection with a portrait of Earth. Â I don't know why this has taken so long because I've had...
Rochester Castle From The Cathedral
For the first time in 2024, the weather forecast was warm enough and dry enough for me to venture out painting. Â Like a very bad penalty taker I...
A Clockwork Orange
Another watercolour today. Â This is based on a publicity shot for A Clockwork Orange, a famous 1971 Stanley Kubrick film. Â With the white face and...
Vasquez Rocks
Today I'm back to old ways, not just painting a landscape but also allowing colours to mix on the paper and in the palette rather than just...
The Buttery, Christ’s College
Today I'm back to painting after a few days off getting my feet under the table in a correspondence chess tournament. Â And I'm back with another of...
Out On Queendown Warren
 A tale of two paintings today.  It wasn’t supposed to come out like this but I've ended up with one in the background and one on the foreground....
Fire
Today it's a portrait of Jimi Hendrix. Â You can tell that I've used the Artist Assist App again just by looking at this one. Â I was planning to do...
Tracey
This is Tracey, a friend of the family. Â She dabbles in painting herself and gave us. Painting of our dog Ruby last Christmas and it's been at the...
New Court In Fineliner And Artgraf
I was hunting around on YouTube the other day for demonstrations of people using Artgraf blocks. Â What I really wanted to see was people drawing...
Roy Wood
With one page left in my rough watercolourpaper block and that page starting to come away at the edges, I wanted to do another watercolour today...
Roughtor, Dartmoor
Tempting though it is to keep painting portraits and figures, I do need to keep up the landscapes, ready for LAOTY of I make into a pod or the...