After that View From Ardtinish Castle, that dear old boy Howard has done it again and come up with another amazing holiday photo made up of simple...
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View From Ardtornish Castle
An old mate from Uni, Howard, was recently on holiday in the Scottish Highlands and Islands and posted loads of photos on Facebook. The one on...
The Mukurob (Finger Of God)
So after finishing Hazel Soan's African Watercolours I wanted to strike while the iron was hot and paint something influenced by the book. For...
Look Over Yonder
I'm still on the watercolours today but not in the mood to work long and hard at a painting. Maybe it's because The Ashes are on; maybe it's...
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...
Miriam In Inktense Pencil
After three days off at Upchurch art and craft fair and a day off chilling on Monday (for which read housework, daily German lesson, daily four...
A Hot Day In Nuuk
It was part 2 of the challenge today. After painting a rocky scene with the tundra supergranulators yesterday, I wanted to paint an Arctic scene...
Abandoned Quarry Ruins, Carbilly Tor, Bodmin Moor
Right, enough messing about. I really should be doing more watercolour painting. I had an idea in my comfy chair last night at about midnight....
Adhira
I warning the mood for an oil pastel landscape today and spent ages looking through loads of photos on my iPad before deciding that all of them...
United Underworld
And here's the United Underworld collection all together. Catwoman maybe looks a little weak but, being drawn at a different distance and with her...
The Good, The Bad And The Ugly: The Collection
And here they are, all together. As I expected, their positives as a set are greater than the sum of their individual positives. They're up for...
Jerry Garcia And Bob Weir, Copenhagen 1972
With all this coloured pencil jamming I've been doing lately, I've been playing a lot of Grateful Dead. YouTube has obviously gotten wind of this,...
All Saints’ Church, Cambridge
It got to about half past five tonight, and after starting out thinking I was having a day off, I thought I might make a start on a coloured pencil...
VNixie
I'm taking it a bit easy today, just going for a quick figure painting with the inktense pencils. I swear I must take almost as long choosing a...
Church Of San Pedro De Atacama, Chile
Another watercolour today. Here was my line of thinking: - lots of recent paintings have been in the key of orange cool: Duane Allman, I Can Read...
A Moment At Stonehenge
It was supposed to be the start of the big heatwave today but for most if the day it's been exactly the opposite. For the first time since I had...
Duane Allman
I've been tearing through the artwork this week and thought I'd take a break, so spent most of the day out in the studio catching up on the novel...
Towards Third Court, Christ’s College, Cambridge
About a week ago, when I painted Garrow Farm in coloured pencils, I discovered the joy of jamming along to music with coloured pencils and just...
Ancient Sorceries
I fancied giving the oil pastels another go today. It feels like too long since I came up with a decent oil pastel painting. I looked through my...
I Can Read Your Mind
So I had the first chance in a while to do some undisturbed painting in the studio. Well I say that but in reality I only started at 2pm and had...