A soft pastel painting today, the first in over a month. It seems I'm always a bit behind on stying in practice at everything but that's my fault...
Geographical Breakdown
Take You Me For A Sponge?
Something different today, a watercolour painting painted mainly using sponges. It's a view in Queendown Warren, chosen for the many layers of...
Alex
Let this be a warning to all of you out there. Fall asleep on my sofa and you're fair game for a portrait. This is my oldest son, Alex. He'd had a...
Well, I’d Sooner Forget, But I Remember Those Nights
Today's painting is inspired by the graphic novels of Chris Ware. Chris's books are like well directed films. He can say so much with...
Freedom
Right, time to give the huge set of 125 oil pastels a workout. I picked a view in Queendown Warren. I don't think it's a view I see on my daily...
Little Wing
Just a portrait of a giraffe today, albeit one with a bird attached to its neck. This one was inspired by a holiday photo in Zimbabwe by Derek, an...
Telegraph Road Got So Deep And So Wide
Still quite hot today but after Tuesday's painting got a lot of praise on LinkedIn, I wanted to keep going, so today I've been sweating it out over...
The Black Hills
I've had twelve paintings up on the wall of the restaurant at the Rose & Crown for a while now. Occasionally the odd one is sold but the...
The Wrong Kind Of Snow
After all that fun yesterday with the tundra supergranulators, I was ready to give them another go today, with another snowy mountain scene but one...
Built A Cabin And A Winter Store
In an attempt to tick off another line from Telegraph Road, I was Googling cabins in Greenland and came across a photo of a couple of cabins (or...
You Can Hear Them Singing Out Their Telegraph Code
It's a landscape with the soft pastels today, and it's just the sort of landscape I enjoy painting with this medium. There's lots of sky, a big...
Let Not The Sun
After finishing the Carrie McKenzie book, I thought I'd better have a go at a landscape using the crystalline watercolour. I picked a view along...
He Made A Home In The Wilderness
It's back to landscapes and to soft pastels today. This is neither WW2 pillbox, this time on the Wales Coast Path in Pembrey, Carmarthenshire. So...
People Driving Home From The Factories
Today was a good day for a long painting after getting out really early to go for my walk before the temperature got too high. And when things did...
Walking Thirty Miles With A Sack On His Back
Today was a for landscapes and a day for soft pastels, both of which have been waiting for some action for a while. The subject matter is one of...
The Cage
Not a long afternoon for me today, so I went for a quick portrait with the crystalline watercolours. The subject today is Susan Oliver playing...
He Put Down His Load Where He Thought It Was The Best
Today was a day for (i) a watercolour landscape, (ii) some neglected colours to see some action, and (iii) to be inspired by a YouTube video in...
Brickfields, Lower Halstow
It's another plein air soft pastel painting day today. I took the device of a couple of guys I met on my walk today and headed out to Brickfields...
Edinburgh Castle
It looks as if the weather's about to warm up again and that I'll be out doing some more plein air soft pastel painting very soon bit I thought I'd...
And They Never Went Further, No, They Never Went Back
More plein air practice with the soft pastels today. I really should paint some plein air buildings at some point but didn't have the time to think...