Not feeling inspired enough to dig out the watercolours or oil pastels today, so I've been doing some figure drawing with the inktense pencils....
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The Bond Villains Collection
And here's the full set in all its glory. Rosa Klebb missed out to Hugo Drax in the final cut, as already revealed. And the second Blofeld keeps...
Moon, Turn The Tides…Gently Gently Away
I'm currently reading How To Make A Watercolour Paint Itself by Nita Engle and thought I'd try out some of her ideas today with a stormy sea...
Castles Made Of Sand
This is my second attempt at a painting with a complementary colour scheme. The two colours are Winsor orange and French ultramarine. In Quiller...
Clare Bridge In Complementary Colours
Anybody else that has read it will know straight away after looking at this that I'm reading Color Choices by Stephen Quiller. There's a full...
The Wind Cries Mary
I was short of ideas today, so watched a few Jean Lurssen videos on YouTube for inspiration. I was impressed by one "exercise" she did (for...
Aubrey, Getting A Tan
The second and final inktense painting of the day is a third appearance for Aubrey. My plan with this one was to use a lot less colour and have a...
Malayavanta Hill, In Oil Pastel
Oil pastel paintings are (for me, for now) faster than watercolours, so are the ideal choice when I want to create a second work in a single day....
Malayavanta Hill, Near Hampi
I'm still on the watercolours and, yet again, I’ve gone for some precariously balanced rocks. These seem to be my thing in 2021. They're great,...
The Graduate
It's been eleven days since my last piece of work but with the sun out and some chores out of the way, the gazebo's back up in the garden and I'm...
Balanced Rock, Big Bend National Park, Texas
I was feeling a bit short of ideas so I googled for precarious rocks again and found this one in Texas. It looks a cracker with its interesting sky...
Kjeragbolten
Yesterday's paintings were bad. To help me find some form, I thought I'd look for some precarious rocks. I managed to find Kjeragbolten, which is...
Cher
Before I head back to watercolours tomorrow, I thought I really should give the marker pens a quick go. So I googled for black and white celebrity...
Gabrielle
More inktense figure drawing as promised. This is a new model for me: Gabrielle. For colours today, I used bark, baked earth, leaf green,...
Kristina Marie
It's been raining for a few days and there's a lot of wind predicted for tomorrow morning, so the gazebo's down and I'm not painting in the garden....
Clare Bridge, Cambridge
Back to the painting today after what's been quite a long break. Today's subject is Clare Bridge from Clare College, Cambridge, a subject that's...
Long Gone
I was flicking through one of my Jean Haines books last night for inspiration and decided to do something in her style today. the subject matter...
The Sea Fit
Two paintings in one day and the second is even better than the first. After doing that first painting, it felt too early to be stopping but I...
Unidentified Scottish Hills
There's good news and bad news on the painting front. First the bad news. I won't be appearing on the next series of Landscape Artist Of The...
Jazmine
I've not done my artwork lately. Too busy with a correspondence chess tournament - these things tend to take over your life. But with one game...