Category: Geographical Breakdown

Crash Landing

And here's the companion piece to go with 1983…(A Merman I Should Turn To Be). The process for painting it is exactly the same. Both paintings...

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Messing Around

It's been a whole week since I last posted. Sorry about that. Too much other stuff on. Choosing a bathroom, choosing blinds, attending an 80th...

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The Face Of Harakbut In Oil Pastel

The plan was to do another soft pastel painting today but looking through all my potential source photos I couldn’t help remembering how short I am...

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Talisker Distillery

I was busy yesterday putting together my applications for Portrait and Landscaoe Artist Of The Year yesterday. The PAOTY deadline isn’t until 7...

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Self Portrait 2025

As promised, it was a self portrait day today. I've seen people online talking about applying to Portrait Artist Of The Year, and it's got me...

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Highland Cow

Somebody local who works with number two son in the kitchen at the Rose & Crown expressed an interest in buying a painting of a highland cow if...

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The M2

It's another soft pastel landscape today. After yesterday's success, I thought I'd have another go while my head was still buzzing with Robert...

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Islay Beach Cottage

After reading the Robert Brindley book, I was itching to get started on a new soft pastel painting. I picked out a view of a cottage for rent on...

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Untitled Basic Track

The nights are fair drawin' in and the days are getting colder. I thought it was cold enough today to dig out the oil pastels again. I've not used...

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Long Hot Summer Night

This is another painting that's been brewing for a while. If I don't look at the clouds and see naked women, what else is there to see? Well,...

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The Tryst

I had another go at a sky painting in soft pastels today but I'm already veering off the beaten path by going for a cloud formation that looks like...

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Early Twentieth Century Hartlip

Time to work on building up a reserve of paintings ready to display at the Rose & Crown when others are sold. For today's subject I picked out...

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In From The Storm

The news came through last night that two of my paintings that were on display at at the Rose & Crown have been sold. So I needed to find a...

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Weissenhof Estate, Stuttgart

The subject of today's painting is a building in the Weissenhof Estate in Stuttgart, a set of supermodern homes built for an exhibition on 1927. ...

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Bunnahabhain Distillery

I'm still making my way through my birthday presents but it isn't new art gear today: it's a new malt. An 18 year old Bunnahabhain from Islay...

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