The weather forecast was for quite a mild day with no rain, so I packed up for another plein air trip. Today I felt like a trip to the seaside and...
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Ponte Delle Tette, Venice
I started this coloured pencil painting yesterday and finished it today. It's a bridge in Venice and one that gets its name from how prostitutes...
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...
Katlyn
I asked the iPad again for a painting idea and it suggested I paint a figure in oil pastels, so that's what I've done today. This is Katlyn,...
Cornelius
Ok so, as I said last time, I asked the spreadsheet on the iPad what to paint next it told me to paint a portrait using the Shire supergranulators...
The Avengers 1965-67
And here they are together, Steed and Mrs Peel. They go quite brilliantly together and are up for sale as a pair. To see the price, click here.
Heading Home, Queendown Warren
I wanted to try something different today. I've had a go at doing a conventional landscape painting in three glazes using the Notanizer app. The...
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. And I'm back with another of...
Fleabag
A lot of my recent watercolour portraits seem to have been painted from a distance, including bodies, hands and things like that. I wanted to go...
Inside New Court, Christ’s College
I needed to paint something other than portraits and, while looking around my Cambridge college's website, hit upon the idea of painting the inside...
Three-One!
Something about that Joe Jordan painting yesterday put me in a nostalgic mood and wanting to keep going back to the 1978 World Cup. And the...
Gregg Allman In Coloured Pencil
Time for something new. This has been brewing away in my mind for a couple of weeks and I finally decided to give it a go. It's my first ever...
Gary Moore
After managing to capture the face that Warren Haynes pulls when he hits a high note, I thought I'd thought I'd try a repeat performance by...
Tres Hombres
I wanted to have another go at painting ZZ Top after failing so badly a couple of days ago. This time, though, it would be in watercolour and...
Freddie Mercury
Right. That's enough of the Inktense pencils. I need to get back to watercolour portraits to impress any passing Portrait Of The Year Judges. I...
Rush
A new month and new boundaries to push, new ideas to explore. I've been having all this fun with the Artist Assist App but have only so far used...
Amy Winehouse
I heard some of the late Amy Winehouse's music the other day. I'm guessing it must have been a question on either Only Connect or University...
Nurse Mildred Ratched
This is Nurse Ratched, famously played by Louise Fletcher in One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest in a performance that won her the Best Actress Oscar...
Warren Haynes In Watercolour
The closing date for Portrait Artist Of The Year is on 5 February, ten days away. I've already submitted my entry but this is the time of her when...