It struck me, watching the football the other night, that the England interim manager Lee Carsley would make a great portrait subject. His eyes...
Category: Coloured Pencils
Mel Smith
Look, I'll make this quick today. Hartlip has been cut off from the internet, so I'm at Medway Services typing this up and quite fancy getting home...
The Lightning Tree, Queendown Warren
I’m on a coloured pencil landscape roll and, as promised yesterday, I'm having another go at combining coloured pencils with fineliners. This...
Barbed Wire Fence, Queendown Warren
With the football on three times a day and me needing to fit in my four hour walk, the days are looking a little short at the moment. Not too...
Queendown Warren: Rain On The Way
Sometimes my choice of what to paint is based on some really weird reasons. Today I looked the box of CDs I have in the studio and thought it would...
When I’m Paid I Always See The job Through
I can't do too many watercolours in a row without pining for a change of media so I was in the coloured pencils today, doing a portrait of Angel...
CasD
After needing to take two attempts at painting the Earp brothers, I felt like I'd wasted a day of my life, so after finishing the corrected...
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...
Gregg Allman In Coloured Pencil
Time for something new. This has been brewing away in my mind for a couple of weeks and I finally decided to give it a go. It's my first ever...
More Coloured Pencil Solvent Testing
After yesterday's late night fun, I kicked off today with three more experiments with coloured pencil solvents. First, I had an overnight thought...
Testing Coloured Pencil Solvent On Neil McCarthy
It's been a day for experimentation today. After reading the Alyona Nickelsen book, I thought I really should give solvents a go with coloured...
Chris Robinson
This is Chris Robinson, vocalist and occasional harmonica or guitar player in The Chris Robinson Brotherhood and The Black Crowes and master of dad...
Eric Clapton, 1970
I've had loads of chores to do Sunday and Monday, leaving only a couple sessions available for painting. So I went for a coloured pencil portrait...
Derwent Art Prize 2024
I've no idea how things will turn out but I've entered these two bad boys for the Derwent Art Prize 2024. Entries have to be in pencil but that...
Derek Trucks
I've painted a lot of guitarists over years in various different media but until now I've not gotten around to my favourite. My favourite living...
Doctor Vivian Crellin 1925—2020
Sometimes somebody just springs to mind whose portrait I want to paint and everything else has to be put to one side while I work on this sudden...
Towards Stockbury From Queendown Warren
Back to the artwork after a few days off, and this is looking like an understated return but there are few things that I tried out in this one,...
Coloured Pencil Primary Mixing Swatches
I got a new art book for Fathers' Day. The review is coming very soon, maybe tomorrow. I'm keeping the book a secret for now, but as something it...
Jerry Garcia And Bob Weir, Copenhagen 1972
With all this coloured pencil jamming I've been doing lately, I've been playing a lot of Grateful Dead. YouTube has obviously gotten wind of this,...
All Saints’ Church, Cambridge
It got to about half past five tonight, and after starting out thinking I was having a day off, I thought I might make a start on a coloured pencil...