Category: Geographical Breakdown

Ardbeg Distillery

I'm back to painting distilleries.  Today it's the Ardbeg Distillery on the island of Islay.  I've deviated a bit from my normal rule here as I...

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Towards Leysdown-On-Sea

The weather forecast was for quite a mild day with no rain, so I packed up for another plein air trip.  Today I felt like a trip to the seaside and...

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Rochester Castle From The Cathedral

For the first time in 2024, the weather forecast was warm enough and dry enough for me to venture out painting.  Like a very bad penalty taker I...

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Ponte Delle Tette, Venice

I started this coloured pencil painting yesterday and finished it today.  It's a bridge in Venice and one that gets its name from how prostitutes...

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Heading Home, Queendown Warren

I wanted to try something different today.  I've had a go at doing a conventional landscape painting in three glazes using the Notanizer app.  The...

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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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The Buttery, Christ’s College

Today I'm back to painting after a few days off getting my feet under the table in a correspondence chess tournament.  And I'm back with another of...

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Inside New Court, Christ’s College

I needed to paint something other than portraits and, while looking around my Cambridge college's website, hit upon the idea of painting the inside...

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Three-One!

Something about that Joe Jordan painting yesterday put me in a nostalgic mood and wanting to keep going back to the 1978 World Cup.  And the...

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Joe Jordan

Today I have been mostly painting a portrait of Joe Jordan.  As he's wearing a Scotland shirt it seemed appropriate to paint this one with three...

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Out On Queendown Warren

  A tale of two paintings today.  It wasn’t supposed to come out like this but I've ended up with one in the background and one on the foreground....

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Saturn

I really do need to finish my collection of planet paintings at some point so I'm back on the case today with Saturn.  For a while my plan had been...

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The Shard

It feels as if the big year end winddown has started.  This will be my final painting of the year but probably not my final post.  It's based on a...

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Annual Self Portrait 2024

So at last I've finally done a self portrait in watercolour.  I was in the mood for supergranulators today and picked out the tundra set. I...

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The Under The Desk Collection

Well, I can tell you that I will definitely be entering for Portrait Artist Of The Year again this time around.  Because, even if I don't have any...

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Under The Desk IV

And that's the Under The Desk collection completed.  For the colour scheme I chose the grey markers, putting down some vague value shapes and then...

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Under The Desk III

Here's the third in the under the desk collection.  Today The main two colours were my light and dark green.  Just as with the previous two...

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