Category: North America – Other

Damn You All To Hell!

Now this is a landscape that's been on my to do list for a while. It's the closing scene from the original Planet Of The Apes film back in...

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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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Disapproval From Mount Rushmore

Another watercolour today. Ā I wanted to have another go with the desert supergranulators supplemented with cool blues after they worked out so well...

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Hoodoo In The Chinle Formation

Afternoon all. Ā First, the obligatory opening paragraph for this time of year. Ā A big hello if you're here trying to decide whether to invite me...

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Denali National Park 2

Still making my way through my pile of new art supplies and today it's a first outing for my Schmincke supergranulating tundra watercolours. Ā They...

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She Wore A Yellow Ribbon

After such a miserable effort yesterday, I had to go back to the oil pastels today. With the watercolours it's still touch and go whether I can...

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The Far Country

I was feeling keen to start putting some of these Bridget Woods lessons into practice. Ā Part of the lesson was to put together the monotone...

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The Hoodoo Watch

The weather was good enough today to spend a bit of time painting properly in the garden. Ā The subject matter is a set of hoodoos. Ā These are weird...

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Sedona, Arizona

Yesterday's High Noon painting was a bit lacking in colour for one of my creations, so I thought I'd do something colourful today: a three colour...

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461 Ocean Boulevard

Back out in the garden painting today and this is what I came up with. Ā It's 461 Ocean Boulevard, the house that Eric Clapton lived in while...

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Key Street, Florida

First things first. Ā This painting was inspired by a photo by Harvey Jones that I saw on the BBC website. Ā He has a Flickr account...

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Mount Rushmore

Now this is more like it! Ā A painting on an experimental surface that worked. Ā The faces were all torn out of the Mail On Sunday dated 11 August...

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Denali National Park

I thought it was about time I did something more conventional. Ā Nothing abstract, no acrylic inks, no salt. Ā Just a plain simple landscape. Ā And I...

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Hotel California

After Free Bird and Comfortably Numb, I thought I'd have a go at another concert closer. Believe it or not, I was wanting to make this a realistic...

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The Day Ends, Springfield, Virginia

This one was inspired from a Facebook post that I saw only four hours ago of a sunset in Springfield, Virginia. It looks nothing like the original...

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Grand Teton National Park

I thought I should go back to basics and paint a normal looking landscape as these were popular on Facebook last year. This one is based on a view...

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