About a week ago, when I painted Garrow Farm in coloured pencils, I discovered the joy of jamming along to music with coloured pencils and just...
Category: Coloured Pencils
Garrow Farm, Bodmin Moor
So here's the painting I've been busy with over the last couple of days. It's a deserted farmhouse on a Bodmin Moor, a scene that's been in my...
Coloured Pencil Full Swatch
It's all go at the moment. We've got someone coming in on Tuesday to replace all the doors and windows in the house, which means not much time for...
An England XI
So now I have a complete England XI. Properly balanced too: two opening batsmen, a wicket keeper and a five man bowling attack that includes two...
Mike Brearley
Another cricket portrait has been long overdue and I've finally come up with one. I wanted my cricket portraits to make up a balanced England XI...
Pulp Fiction
I have a day's respite today from preparing for the art studio and thought I'd better dust off some cobwebs and get back to my artwork. After...
John Cleese
I had a premonition the other day. Maybe it's all to do with new episodes of Fawlty Towers being created but I've convinced myself that John...
Warren Haynes
I'm back to the coloured pencils today after a day off to check out potential garden art studios. I just think I need a few more coloured pencil...
Twelve Angry Men
I saw this film on the telly the other day. Twelve Angry Men. It was released in 1957 and is a masterpiece. Twelve members of a jury debate a...
David Suchet
It's still too cold to be out painting, so I'm indoors with the coloured pencils again. And, to be honest, I could do with having more portraits...
Moeen Ali, The Beard To Be Feared
I'm back to cricket player portraits today. After my disastrous Stuart Broad portrait, I'm having another attempt at a bowler who could bat for me...
Annual Self Portrait 2023
It's that time of year when a certain job comes up. It's time for the annual self portrait, something that I've been looking forward to for a...
Graham Thorpe
I've been in action with coloured pencils again. This one took me three days. It let me use some of the ideas that I picked up from the Karen...
The Old Bridge, Latheronwheel
After reading those two books and coming up with this painting, I think I may finally have "got" coloured pencils. It's all about adding multiple...
Felicia, Blinded
So I finished reading Masterful Color and was ready to put some of its ideas into practice. Today's model is Felicia, making her fourth...
Neil McCarthy
Neil McCarthy (1932-1985) was one of those actors everyone recognises but whose name nobody knows. I saw him in an episode of Some Mothers Do 'Ave...
Felicia In Coloured Pencil
Before I start talking art, a bit of news. I retired on Tuesday. Eighteen months without a contract and the likelihood of my father's will being...
Bailey
After a few days off dealing with all sorts of other stuff in my life, I'm back to work again. Today it's some figure drawing in coloured pencils...
Felicia
It's still raining here and more's due tomorrow. I know I'm overdue a watercolour but I can't be going outside in this weather, so I'm stuck...
Thea’s Back
More angular figure drawing and today's model was Thea. You know the drill by now. Put down the drawing with lots of straight lines, put on lots...