I was feeling up for a challenge today, so I decided I'd do a painting that was a set of twelve random vignettes and that I'd ask friends on...
Category: Geographical Breakdown
Colourful Sky
This was based on a photo of the Aurora Borealis where the lights were all in green. I didn't manage to get the greens right and the sky looks...
First Gesso
Today's painting follows hot on the heels of yesterday's, mainly because I spread a load of gesso on a watercolour sheet to dry overnight. It's my...
SIAS Newsletter November 2018
And here's another one. This is called SIAS Newsletter November 2018 after the email that included the stock photo this was based on. It's getting...
It Started As The Helix Nebula
22 August 2018 I was still left with one empty picture frame and was wondering what to do with it. Then I had a great idea. I was going to pay a...
Ugly Forest Path
30 July 2018 This was based on a picture on a birthday card. It was a good choice of subject material. But, as you can see, the execution was...
Down T’Mill
16 July 2018 After Stock LinkedIn Photo With Bike Replaced With Dog got such a great reception on Facebook I thought I'd have another go at...
The Magic Purple Tree Only Appears At Sunset
8 July 2018 This one was created on the same day as the Stock LinkedIn Photo With Bike Replaced With Dog. This time I definitely remember doing...
Stock LinkedIn Photo With Bike Replaced With Dog
8 July 2018 This one is based on a stock photo that somebody had used to head up an article on LinkedIn. The original picture had somebody riding...
Random Nebula
2 July 2018 Oh, this was a really good one. It started out based on one particular nebula (I can't remember which one - sorry) but ended up...
Angel Of The North Under Four Different Skies
26 June 2018 I think the idea for this came from a YouTube video. I watched somebody do four paintings of the same scene at four different times...
Hadrian’s Wall
25 June 2018 I'd had some feedback that I was good at painting trees, so thought I'd better look for a good tree to paint. A bit of googling of...
A Mexican Tree
19 June 2018 And it's another bad one. It's looking like I might be reverting back to my old standards. The painting's based on a photo. I can't...
Time Portal
11 June 2018 This is bad. Very bad. I still think the idea was a good one. A landscape on a nice day, but with a sort of lens in front of it...
Lightning Over Henley-On-Thames
6 June 2018 Some more lightning, this time over Henley-On-Thames. You can probably tell that this painting's been cropped. There was a car and...
Icebergs Off Newfoundland
6 June 2018 There's a village somewhere in Newfoundland that enjoys the sight every year of all these huge icebergs floating slowly past. It...
Lightning Over West Wellow
27 May 2018 There were some cracking thunderstorms in late May and I thought I'd have a go at painting one. I dug around on the BBC News website...
Trees Against A Green Sky
25 May 2018 I thought I'd try painting from real life. Well, I say real life. These trees are based on a couple of trees just over the fence in my...
Unforgiven
23 May 2018 This is based on an establishing shot in Unforgiven, a Clint Eastwood Western from 1992. I've got a lot of Westerns in my DVD...
Schilthorn
21 May 2018 After the success with mountains a couple of days before (Susten Pass) I thought I had to have another go at a mountain scene from that...