Category: Geographical Breakdown

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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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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Windsor Castle

Another watercolour landscape today and another one completed not long after lunch. Ā I can feel myself settling into a routine of painting in the...

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Towards Warren Cottage

Iā€™ve caught up on my sleep now and can finally complete my three watercolours in three days challenge, two days late. Ā The challenge for the third...

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Nuuk Cathedral

Day two of my three watercolour landscapes in three days challenge and today it's buildings day. Ā I picked out a scene in Nuuk that had a church in...

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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...

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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...

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Because The Night

I was in an experimental mood today. Ā I wanted to try out more ofĀ my new Inktense pencil colours, the saddle brown and sepia ink not having been...

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Lewes Castle

Here's a question for you. Ā Who had a UK number one in the 1979s with D.I.V.O.R.C.E.? Ā Good guess but you're wrong. Ā It was Billy Connolly with a...

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Yaugher Lane, Queendown Warren

Weā€™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...

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Secret Tunnel Under The M2

The weather forecast said that this afternoon would be a lot warmer than yesterday, that the morning's wind would have calmed down and that there...

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The Planets

So here they are all together, The Planets series of paintings. Ā Eat your heart out, Gustav Holst. This, I should add, is a series of paintings...

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Flatter To Deceive

I've finally gotten around to completing my Planets collection with a portrait of Earth. Ā I don't know why this has taken so long because I've had...

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