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...
Category: Geographical Breakdown
The Planets
So here they are all together, The Planets series of paintings. Eat your heart out, Gustav Holst. This, I should add, is a series of paintings...
Flatter To Deceive
I've finally gotten around to completing my Planets collection with a portrait of Earth. I don't know why this has taken so long because I've had...
M2 Medway Crossing Under Three Different Skies
So here’s the thing. I need to put my Landscape Artist Of The Year entry together by around the end of April. My best landscape over the last...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Third Court Room, Christ’s College
Back to Christ's College tidy for another indoor landscape. This is a room in Third Court, probably in Y staircase. My third year room was in W...
Colours On The Path, Queendown Warren
Once again I'm letting the iPad tell me what to paint. Today it was telling me to paint a landscape using the Artgraf blocks but to put down dry...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Kingsferry Bridge Under Three Different Skies
It's a watercolour landscape day today. I've been saving up some photos with amazing looking skies that have been posted on Facebook by a couple...
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....
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...
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...