Geographical Breakdown

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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Under The Desk II

Look, I'm allowed to change my mind, OK?  Yesterday's portrait grew on me and Monday tends to be a short day, so I thought I'd continue with the...

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Under The Desk I

Applications for Portrait Artist Of The Year need to be in by the end of January, so I thought I'd better make a start on the 2024 self portrait...

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New Court In Fineliner And Artgraf

I was hunting around on YouTube the other day for demonstrations of people using Artgraf blocks.  What I really wanted to see was people drawing...

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Lula’s Spot

I've done another painting of Queendown Warren today.  This isa bench that I walk past pretty well every day.  If it's been raining a lot, I go for...

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Roughtor, Dartmoor

Tempting though it is to keep painting portraits and figures, I do need to keep up the landscapes, ready for LAOTY of I make into a pod or the...

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The Corbomite Manouver Collection

And here they are, all together.  Spock, Kirk and Scotty.  None of them brilliant individual paintings but as a set of three I think they look...

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First Officer Spock

I know I said I might not end up completing the Corbomite Manouver Collection but after putting Kirk and Scotty alongside each other I could see...

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Venus And The Petrova Line

I'm back on the planets again and today it's Venus.  It took me a long time to come up with an idea about how to make a painting of Venus a bit...

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Captain James Tiberius Kirk

Today I had a go at the second in The Corbomite Manouver collection.  Today it's Captain Kirk, painted using the Shire supergranulators, befitting...

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The Sandstone Kagoule

I really shouldn’t be painting on Mondays.  Monday is housework day and after I've had breakfast, done the housework, finished my daily four mile...

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Chief Engineer Montgomery Scott

Sometimes great ideas come into my head on my daily walks.  Today was one of those days.  Earlier this year I put together The Good The Bad and the...

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Uranus

After a bit of a break, I'm back on the planets again.  Today it's Uranus.  All eight planets revolve around the sun in roughly the same plane and...

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Mercury

Today's planet is Mercury, sharing its name with the messenger of the Roman gods and therefore deserving of a pair or wings.  For the three colours...

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The Face Of Mars

Another day, another planet.  My latest idea for planet paintings (to go with the ideas of random surrealness and Roman gods) is to think about...

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Neptune

This is the second in my series of paintings of the planets and today it's Neptune.  There was a question on University Challenge the other week...

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Jupiter And Io

Seventeen days since my last watercolour and I'm finally back.  The idea for this one popped into my head while out on my walk yesterday.  I've no...

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