Today's painting is based on a photo taken by an old friend Olly while (I believe) on holiday in Portugal. He said it had an Edward Hopper feel to...
Category: Geographical Breakdown
The Studio
I wandered around the village for a while looking for a subject for my third dash & splash. I wanted to find a drawing spot in the shade as the...
Secret Door Under Hartlip Church
For my second dash & splash of the day, I headed to Hartlip Church and did this drawing of some stairs down to a doorway below the...
Hartlip War Memorial
It's been a while since I last went on a dash & splash so I thought I'd give it a go today. How this works is that I head outside and do some...
13 September 1999
After yesterday's news that I won't be wildcarding it at LAOTY and the arrival of two new Artgraf colours, today was always going to be an Artgraf...
The Humber Bridge Under Three Different Skies
With one eye on my preferred Landscape Of The Year venue, today was a day to paint another bridge under three different skies. Unfortunately my...
Doctor Zachary Smith
Sometimes I receive messages and I just have to act on them. I had the telly to myself last night and managed to find a 1960 episode of The...
Lewes Castle In Blue And Orange
I didn't waste any time sitting around thinking about doing a blue and orange painting and went straight into action this morning with another...
Queendown Warren In Three Complementary Colour Schemes
Not much time to paint again today but I do need to keep in practice. I decided to go for an experimental painting that wouldn't take much...
The Magic Of Queendown Warren
I wanted to have a go at a painting in the style of those in the Waltraud Nawratil book. I picked another of those views that I see in the North...
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...
Windsor Castle
Another watercolour landscape today and another one completed not long after lunch. I can feel myself settling into a routine of painting in the...
Towards Warren Cottage
I’ve caught up on my sleep now and can finally complete my three watercolours in three days challenge, two days late. The challenge for the third...
Nuuk Cathedral
Day two of my three watercolour landscapes in three days challenge and today it's buildings day. I picked out a scene in Nuuk that had a church in...
Climate Change In City Of Rocks National Reserve
I need to get back to painting more landscapes, so that I can be ready for Landscape Artist Of The Year if selected as a pod artist or as a...
Ally MacLeod
A grim day today with a power cut in the morning and then no WiFi when the power came back on so I'm grabbing a sneaky coffee in Costa while I...
The City
After yesterday's experimentation I wanted to use all the lessons from it as quickly as possible, so that's what I've been doing today. I started...
Because The Night
I was in an experimental mood today. I wanted to try out more of my new Inktense pencil colours, the saddle brown and sepia ink not having been...
Lewes Castle
Here's a question for you. Who had a UK number one in the 1979s with D.I.V.O.R.C.E.? Good guess but you're wrong. It was Billy Connolly with a...
Yaugher Lane, Queendown Warren
We’re getting close to that time of year when the oil pastels start melting in my hands and become unusable so, with today being a lot colder...