I've been rereading Webb On Watercolour and was reminded of the push-pull technique which I never got around to trying out, so I thought I'd give...
Category: Geographical Breakdown
The Call
It's been a bad day today and that means I must have been painting with watercolour. This bad run needs to come to an end soon. I thought I'd...
Bridge Near Oswaldkirk
Oil pastels are just too much fun. Every other painting at the moment is in oil pastel and it's an oil pastel day today. I thought I'd be...
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...
Two Trees, Hartlip House
After a flop with the watercolours, I'm back to the oil pastels again, where everything always seems to go well and I can regain some confidence. ...
Round The Back Of Hartlip Church
I'm finally back onto the watercolours today. The weather looked good outside but the rain came along so I moved to the garage. It would have...
Animal Biscuit Valley, New Zealand
I'm still on the oil pastels but it's a landscape in New Zealand today. Well kind of. I've been a bit smart today and left out some rocks that...
Annual Self Portrait 2022
It's time for the annual self portrait and after two years of inktense pencils, this year's portrait is in oil pastels. I have a long way to go...
Torres Del Paine National Park
Enough with the naked women, I'm back onto landscapes. This is three artworks in successive days, which is pretty unusual for me. The subject...
Ullapool
I fancied giving the oil pastels a go today and this is what I came up with. It's a view of Ullapool, a tiny town somewhere on the West Coast of...
Ruby
I did say that Jean Haines had inspired me to go out and paint animals. And three days after the book was published, I've painted our cavalier...
The Whisperers
With those two jobs out of the way, I was ready to kick off my painting for 2022. Be warned though, my first watercolour of the year is never...
The Christ’s College Maths Fellows 1982-86 Collection
And here are the four of them together in all their glory. They feed off each other and the likenesses all improve when they're together. I feel...
Professor Frank Kelly CBE FRS
Last up in the Christ's College Maths Fellows 1982-86 collection is Frank Kelly. He may have been lecturer for my course on Markov Chains: I'm...
Professor John Wilson
Allow me to present Professor John Stuart Wilson. Our first pure maths supervisor and the guy that dragged us all kicking and screaming from...
Doctor Richard Maunder
Second up in the Christ's Maths Fellows 1982-86 collection is Richard Maunder. This guy was an absolute legend. He was a pure mathematician, into...
Professor Peter Landshoff
It's time to start a new portrait collection. I was feeling a bit short of ideas and a bit out of form so thought I'd do portraits of the four...
Number Two Twinned With Hartlip Church In The Snow
And here are those two paintings together.
Number Two
Remember Hartlip Church In The Snow from a month or so ago? I gave it to Barbara next door as an 80th birthday present. Well, her daughter pulled...
Frank’s Wood, Leith Hill, Surrey
It's getting cold and wet outside so the number of watercolour and oil paintings that I'll be doing the rest of this year is numbered. Today I...