Starting to feel like I’m back in the swing of things again after this one, my first three layer posterised watercolour portrait in three weeks. ...
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Monument Valley
Two weeks since the last one and I'm finally back on the soft pastel landscapes. I wanted to paint a natural landscape with no buildings, and one...
Four Colleges
I was back in the studio today but, after a long housework sesh, didn't have much time for painting. So I thought I'd go for something in the...
The Enterprise Crew
And here's the complete collection. Lined up in Sudoku formation with one red, one blue and one green/yellow shirt in each column and in each...
Stephen Mangan
Yesterday's watercolour painting was a huge success and I've learned through experience that the best way to follow up a win like that is not to...
Entering Queendown Warren
The bathroom fitters have the day off so I'm not stuck indoors and am back in the studio today. After spending all week on market portraits, I was...
View From River Cottage
Back in action today with a soft pastel landscape. I understand that there's a view of this gate from Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's River Cottage...
Robbie Williams
Someone put up a post on LinkedIn today about Robbie Williams and I realised immediately that he'd make a great portrait subject and am kicking...
Edith Keeler
Star Trek's on five night a week on Legend Xtra at the moment and has already inspired one painting. Tonight's episode is The City On The Edge Of...
EvaE In Oil Pastel
I thought I'd better give the oil pastels an outing while the weather is still cold enough for them to not melt. And with all my landscapes being...
Clifton Suspension Bridge
This week's LAOTY was in Bristol with a view of Clifton Suspension Bridge. It was the episode that I picked out when applying unsuccessfully to be...
Dave Best
Another portrait today for the benefit of those lovely PAOTY judges. Today's subject is Dave Best from The Royle Family, played by the great comedy...
Lemmy Kilmister
Someone put up a post on LinkedIn the other day (hi Steve!) asking people what song makes them turn up the volume on the radio. Looking down the...
What Are Little Girls Made Of?
Today's subject matter is a still from Star Trek TOS. It's a still from What Are Little Girls Made, featuring Sherry Jackson and Ted Cassidy as the...
The Strangest Man
I've been reading The Strangest Man by Graham Farmelo, the biography of mathematical physicist Paul Dirac, someone I've painted before. Looking at...
Big Daddy And Giant Haystacks
Back in the 1970s we had this "thing" called professional wrestling. It was a pantomime-esquire acting performance dressed up like a sporting...
Eilean Donan Castle, Dornie
Back to soft pastel landscapes again, and to coming up with a set of submissions for Landscape Artist Of The Year. Looking through the huge set of...
Alan Davies
Right, time to get down to some proper work and to produce some posterised paintings that will impress the Portrait Artist Of The Year judges when...
The Singular Death Of Morton
Still too many things going on at the moment for me to have much time to paint but I did have the time today to give the Inktense pencils a...
Keeping His Promise
I've not done much painting this year. It's partly due to having too many other distractions and partly due to the days still feeling too short....