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The Frankenstein-Dracula Variation
After reading Painting By Design by Charles Reid, I felt ready to attempt my first watercolour portrait. It started off as the world chess...
(Two Of) The Hateful Eight
I thought it was about time I went back to my most popular series of paintings, the abstractified Westerns. Today, I found a still from The...
The Glamour Of The Snow
I thought a bit of watercolour painting was overdue, so I've been out there this morning running off this little number. The thunder started as I...
Noel Fielding
When I heard in Friday that Noel Fielding was going to be this week's model for Portrait Artist Of The Week, I knew I had to have a go. Not...
461 Ocean Boulevard
Back out in the garden painting today and this is what I came up with. It's 461 Ocean Boulevard, the house that Eric Clapton lived in while...
Statistical Physicists
And here are the four of them together. Back in my uni days, Statistical Physics was the course that came up trumps for me in every paper of my...
Super Blood Wolf Moon
Today was going to be about bright colours. I was still in my orange fixation but was also wanting to give the viridian another good workout. I...
We Will Make Them Give Us Light
After throwing my heart and soul into that last watercolour I wasn't ready to stop for the day. I needed to "warm down" by doing something more...
Henry Fonda, Once Upon A Time In The West
Back on the markers again and, for whatever reason, I've developed a taste for drawing portraits. Today, though, rather than looking for photos of...
Something Different For Christmas?
It's just over ten weeks to Christmas. If you wanted to buy something different, have you thought about a painting? If you press "For Sale"on the...
DNA
And here's the second of the day. This is all out abstract. I cracklepasted a board a couple of days ago (with watercolour ground applied to the...
Schneesturm
Two paintings today, both on cracklepasted board and both with the help of acrylic inks to bring out the cracks. This is the first. This one...
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...
Stormy Abstract
And here's my second effort of the day. Another with a specially prepared crackle paste surface. This time, the special guest in the surface was...
Now What Are You Barking At?
And here's my latest Jane Betteridge inspired painting on an unusual surface. It's my first go using crackle paste. I bought an acrylic canvas...
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...
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...
Hondo
I thought it was about time I did another Western silhouette painting as they're always popular. Today's painting is based on a still from Hondo, a...
Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid
And here's today's second painting. This one really is a Western. For once it's an action scene rather than a pose. I'm going to claim that I've...