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
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...
Sky Above Hartlip Church
I'm back on to watercolours today and onto my proper palette rather than following any Schmincke supergranulator cheat codes, much as a love...
Looking Up At L3, Christ’s College
And finally today, we're back home in Christ's College. This was the first to be drawn on Sunday and the last to be painted today. It's a view...
Long Gone
I was flicking through one of my Jean Haines books last night for inspiration and decided to do something in her style today. the subject matter...
View From Hartlip Church
And it's another Hartlip landscape! This is the seventh and last of the Hartlip landscapes that I put together value plans for a while ago. If I...
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...
Mount Rushmore
Now this is more like it! A painting on an experimental surface that worked. The faces were all torn out of the Mail On Sunday dated 11 August...
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...
A Miserable Night In Torquay
I still have three new books sitting on the shelf and it would be very easy for me to stop painting for a month while I read them all. But then I...
The Searchers Again
I'm back to silhouette scenes from famous Westerns. This time it's back to The Searchers. John Ford really knew how to compose a scene. The rider...
The Day Ends, Springfield, Virginia
This one was inspired from a Facebook post that I saw only four hours ago of a sunset in Springfield, Virginia. It looks nothing like the original...
Comfortably Numb
A fourth consecutive painting named after a song title. There's a clip on YouTube of David Gilmour playing a clip of Purple Rain in the middle of...
Sunshine Through The Brambles
I got the idea for this one yesterday afternoon, staring out of the lounge window as Bradley Walsh was asking "What has the chaser put?" Not that...
My Darling Clementine
Back to a favourite theme and it's another Ditko/Western mashup. It's based on an iconic Wyatt Earp pose in My Darling Clementine (1946), leaning...