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Jim Lovell

Next up is Jim Lovell, Command Module Pilot (CMP) in Apollo 8 and, more famously, Commander of Apollo 13, the famously aborted moon landing mission...

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Frank Borman

And so it begins. It's time for another marker portrait collection. It's the biggest so far with twelve portraits. It's a collection that's been...

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Harcourt Fenton Mudd

Today's portrait subject is Harry Mudd, an interstellar conman, okayed by Roger C. Carmel in two episodes of Star Trek TOS. I went for the trippy...

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The Batphone

Another posterised portrait. This is Adam West and Burt Ward playing Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson in the 1960s Batman TV series. I deliberately...

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Burning Of The Midnight Lamp

Yesterday's painting took a while and left me a little drained so I was tempted to take a day off today but I have a physio class tomorrow that...

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Peter Wyngarde

Time for another posterised watercolour portrait in an attempt to impress the PAOTY judges. This is the late actor Peter Wyngarde who specialised...

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NadiaR

I thought I'd just chill out today with an inktense figure painting rather than focusing on impressing Artist Of The Year judges. Today's subject...

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Rainy Day, Dream Away

It's another oil pastel landscape today. I found a photo online of the arch that connects Hartlip Church to the orchards behind it. It's an arch...

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John McVie

I’m still looking to come up with stuff in the same style as my Artist Of The Year submissions and that will hopefully impress any visiting judges....

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Foxy Lady

And now the Artist Of The Year run up starts. I need to building up my collection of watercolour portraits and pastel landscapes for PAOTY and...

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Krys II

As I said yesterday, after a couple of landscape paintings featuring the tundra supergranulators, I needed to do something different before a...

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A Secret Worship

For today's painting, the first serious painting of the year, I thought I'd try out something Christopher Stephen recently tried out on YouTube,...

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Seven Local Landscapes

It's the new year. Welcome to 2026. My year end hiatus is officially over and I'm back into action. As usual, I needed to rattle out a no...

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Chateau De Villeneuve De Milhac

It's the 16th of December now and I should be settling into my year end hiatus, sitting back, reading books, watching Westerns and reflecting on...

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Muhammad Ali

This one has taken me a couple of days. It's a coloured pencil portrait of Muhammad Ali. I'm not a great boxing fan, to be honest, but Ali was...

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Tom Read Wilson

After a break of 27 days I was back to watercolour today. I thought I'd have a go at Tom Read Wilson, runner up in I'm A Celebrity 2025 and the...

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Dave Barnes

Because (i) I was feeling a bit tired after yesterday's efforts, and (ii) I came back from my morning walk without a painting and plan in mind, it...

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