Category: Colour Keys

Gary Delaney

I’ve painted quite a comedians this year. And in each case it was the face that drew me in. Comedians tend to have faces that make great portrait...

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Weissenhof Estate, Stuttgart

The subject of today's painting is a building in the Weissenhof Estate in Stuttgart, a set of supermodern homes built for an exhibition on 1927. ...

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Two Kiln Oast, Newington

After a day off, I'm back to building a collection of paintings of Newington. Today I picked out a converted oast house next to the church. ...

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Porto City Hall Tower

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...

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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...

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The Transfer

Today's painting is based on a photo taken by an old friend Olly while (I believe) on holiday in Portugal. He said it had an Edward Hopper feel to...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Windsor Castle

Another watercolour landscape today and another one completed not long after lunch.  I can feel myself settling into a routine of painting in the...

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Lewes Castle

Here's a question for you.  Who had a UK number one in the 1979s with D.I.V.O.R.C.E.?  Good guess but you're wrong.  It was Billy Connolly with a...

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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...

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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.  Like a very bad penalty taker I...

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A Clockwork Orange

Another watercolour today.  This is based on a publicity shot for A Clockwork Orange, a famous 1971 Stanley Kubrick film.  With the white face and...

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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...

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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.  And I'm back with another of...

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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....

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Fire

Today it's a portrait of Jimi Hendrix.  You can tell that I've used the Artist Assist App again just by looking at this one.  I was planning to do...

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Tracey

This is Tracey, a friend of the family.  She dabbles in painting herself and gave us. Painting of our dog Ruby last Christmas and it's been at the...

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