Category: For sale

Frank Bough

Of all the celebrities ever to have been disgraced after being caught in a tabloid sting, Frank Bough is the most likely to raise a smile and the...

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Brian Clough’s Finger

I thought I'd have a go at painting Brian Clough today.  It was always going to happen at some point.  I had a choice between source photos and...

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Ardbeg Distillery

I'm back to painting distilleries.  Today it's the Ardbeg Distillery on the island of Islay.  I've deviated a bit from my normal rule here as I...

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Cammie II

  After two days out on the road with the watercolours, today's weather forecast was more than welcome and I've been painting in the studio while...

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Towards Leysdown-On-Sea

The weather forecast was for quite a mild day with no rain, so I packed up for another plein air trip.  Today I felt like a trip to the seaside and...

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Ponte Delle Tette, Venice

I started this coloured pencil painting yesterday and finished it today.  It's a bridge in Venice and one that gets its name from how prostitutes...

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A Clockwork Orange

Another watercolour today.  This is based on a publicity shot for A Clockwork Orange, a famous 1971 Stanley Kubrick film.  With the white face and...

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Katlyn

  I asked the iPad again for a painting idea and it suggested I paint a figure in oil pastels, so that's what I've done today.  This is Katlyn,...

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Cornelius

Ok so, as I said last time, I asked the spreadsheet on the iPad what to paint next it told me to paint a portrait using the Shire supergranulators...

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The Avengers 1965-67

And here they are together, Steed and Mrs Peel.  They go quite brilliantly together and are up for sale as a pair.  To see the price, click here.

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Heading Home, Queendown Warren

I wanted to try something different today.  I've had a go at doing a conventional landscape painting in three glazes using the Notanizer app.  The...

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Vasquez Rocks

Today I'm back to old ways, not just painting a landscape but also allowing colours to mix on the paper and in the palette rather than just...

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The Buttery, Christ’s College

Today I'm back to painting after a few days off getting my feet under the table in a correspondence chess tournament.  And I'm back with another of...

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Fleabag

A lot of my recent watercolour portraits seem to have been painted from a distance, including bodies, hands and things like that.  I wanted to go...

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Inside New Court, Christ’s College

I needed to paint something other than portraits and, while looking around my Cambridge college's website, hit upon the idea of painting the inside...

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Three-One!

Something about that Joe Jordan painting yesterday put me in a nostalgic mood and wanting to keep going back to the 1978 World Cup.  And the...

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Gregg Allman In Coloured Pencil

Time for something new.  This has been brewing away in my mind for a couple of weeks and I finally decided to give it a go.  It's my first ever...

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Gary Moore

After managing to capture the face that Warren Haynes pulls when he hits a high note, I thought I'd thought I'd try a repeat performance by...

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Tres Hombres

I wanted to have another go at painting ZZ Top after failing so badly a couple of days ago.  This time, though, it would be in watercolour and...

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