I'm back to cricket player portraits today. After my disastrous Stuart Broad portrait, I'm having another attempt at a bowler who could bat for me...
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Graham Thorpe
I've been in action with coloured pencils again. This one took me three days. It let me use some of the ideas that I picked up from the Karen...
The Old Bridge, Latheronwheel
After reading those two books and coming up with this painting, I think I may finally have "got" coloured pencils. It's all about adding multiple...
Nasser Hussain
More cricket portraiture with the markers today. I'm going to continue with cricket portraits until I have a complete balanced team together, or...
Adil Rashid
My third successive cricket portrait and they've all been in different media. Today it's the first outing for markers since last winter. I picked...
Jos Buttler
Look, I'm still in the mood for cricket portraits and with England due to play Pakistan in the World T20 Final on Sunday morning, I thought I'd...
Felicia, Blinded
So I finished reading Masterful Color and was ready to put some of its ideas into practice. Today's model is Felicia, making her fourth...
Black Rock Cottage, Glencoe In The Key Of Purple Cool
So, as promised, here's another painting of Black Rock Cottage, but this time using more conventional watercolour.ours rather than the...
Black Rock Cottage, Glencoe In Tundra Colours
I promised people on LinkedIn that I'd start posting my artwork up there. Yesterday I put up my first figure drawing since retirement and it was...
Felicia In Coloured Pencil
Before I start talking art, a bit of news. I retired on Tuesday. Eighteen months without a contract and the likelihood of my father's will being...
Bailey
After a few days off dealing with all sorts of other stuff in my life, I'm back to work again. Today it's some figure drawing in coloured pencils...
Stockbury Church Tower
For my final dash and splash of the day, I headed out to Stockbury Church and settled down in a spot that I'd painted from before. After not being...
Hills In Shire Colours
As I said in the last post, I felt like I could do a second quick painting today. Because I’d managed to paint an imaginary landscape quite...
Hills In Tundra Colours
The rain's finally stopped, so I'm back on the watercolours at last. I thought I'd let myself back in gently by painting an imaginary landscape...
Felicia
It's still raining here and more's due tomorrow. I know I'm overdue a watercolour but I can't be going outside in this weather, so I'm stuck...
Thea’s Back
More angular figure drawing and today's model was Thea. You know the drill by now. Put down the drawing with lots of straight lines, put on lots...
Niecy
It's been a while but the weather today was just right for oil pastels. No rain, warm enough to paint outside, not so hot that the pastels melt....
Four Views From A Californian Bus Stop
The idea came to me over the weekend when I was watching a famous Hitchcock film on the telly. There's a famous scene of someone waiting at a bus...
Sam
It's raining outside, which is a big frustration because I have a great idea for my next watercolour. Instead I'm stuck indoors and thought I'd...
David Bowie
In the mood for a coloured pencil drawing today, so looked at the CD collection and decided to go for Bowie. The CD collection is pretty good...