Today's painting is a portrait of guitarist Buddy Guy, based on the cover of his Damn Right I've Got The Blues album (Amazon link here: as an...
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Sir Winston Churchill
Time for a long, drawn out coloured pencil painting. I started this one on the Thursday, left it for a day, and finished on the Saturday. The...
Lullaby For The Summer
I didn't use the soft pastels at all during September so thought I’d better get them out today. I picked a scene from Queendown Warren that's been...
Then Came The Churches, Then Came The Schools
Another watercolour today and, for the first time in ages, it's not posterised. After doing some YouTubing, I was in the mood to put down a...
Lindsey Buckingham And Stevie Nicks
I saw the other day that the Buckingham Nicks album had been rereleased. This is the album that Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks recorded...
Hear My Freedom
Yesterday was a cracking day for artists. There was that feeling of rain in the air, the sky was overcast and everything felt wet without actually...
Joe Bugner
After a long five day break I'm back in the studio again. I felt in the mood for crystalline watercolours and had already identified a photo of...
See The Winter, Taste The Snow, Feel The Cold, Hear The Wind, Smell The Reindeer
And here they are together: See The Winter, Taste The Snow, Feel The Cold and Hear The Wind, Smell The Reindeer. I couldn't decide whether to have...
Temple of Saturn, Rome
Number two son just announced he's off with some mates to Bremen, Split and Rome so I'm using this as an excuse to get in some much needed...
Carlo Ancelotti
Back into my comfort zone today with a posterised portrait using the Shire colours, following my usual process. This is Carlo Ancelotti, one of...
Blobby Blobby Blobby
I've been told I need to do some more fish paintings. And that fish in the posterised trippy scheme work better than fish in the posterised tundra...
Straight Ahead
A soft pastel painting today, the first in over a month. It seems I'm always a bit behind on stying in practice at everything but that's my fault...
AnaIv In Charcoal
After reading Anthony Ryder's book, I was keen to put some of his ideas into practice as soon as possible, so I've been doing some figure drawing...
Here He Comes
Tuesday's angelfish went so well that I thought I'd have mother go at a camouflaged fish in posterised style. This could end up becoming a series...
Take You Me For A Sponge?
Something different today, a watercolour painting painted mainly using sponges. It's a view in Queendown Warren, chosen for the many layers of...
Ameeka III
Someone made a comment on LinkedIn about my painting of Alex, saying that she liked how the viewer had to do a little work before the image would...
Hey Joe
I was in the mood for a figure painting with sensible colours today. I'd already picked out a photo of a male model called Joe, one that had lots...
Well, I’d Sooner Forget, But I Remember Those Nights
Today's painting is inspired by the graphic novels of Chris Ware. Chris's books are like well directed films. He can say so much with...
Ozzy Osbourne
Today it's the late Ozzy Osbourne of Black Sabbath who does a week ago just 17 days after performing in his farewell concert. I picked out this...
Freedom
Right, time to give the huge set of 125 oil pastels a workout. I picked a view in Queendown Warren. I don't think it's a view I see on my daily...