Only time for one more portrait today and it's Lance Corporal Jack Jones, played by Clive Dunn. I picked out this portrait because of all...
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Maurice Yeatman And The Reverend Timothy Farthing
Next up it's the verger and the vicar, played by Edward Sinclair and Frank Williams respectively. Maybe not who people were expecting but two much...
Private Joe Walker
Next up is Private Joe Walker, played by James Beck, one of my favourite two characters in this TV show. What I liked about the source photo was...
Sergeant Arthur Wilson
I was away for a few days for a wedding in Leeds last weekend and just started playing in a correspondence chess tournament. With too much brain...
LumenF
I didn't have much time today but still wanted to do some painting so went for a bit of figure drawing with the inktense pencils. It's LumenF's...
Disapproval From Mount Rushmore
Another watercolour today. I wanted to have another go with the desert supergranulators supplemented with cool blues after they worked out so well...
Inverie In Tundra Colours
I didn't stay away long. I'm back to paint Inverie again, this time using the tundra supergranulators. I've chosen a different viewpoint and was...
The Old Forge In Watercolour
I'm back on the watercolours and couldn't resist having another go at The Old Forge in Ivernie. It was tempting have a go at this scene in tundra...
The Old Forge, Inverie
This, or at least the building on the far left, is The Old Forge, a pub in the village of Inverie on the Knoydart Peninsula. It was in the news...
Torre Nubia
After that View From Ardtinish Castle, that dear old boy Howard has done it again and come up with another amazing holiday photo made up of simple...
View From Ardtornish Castle
An old mate from Uni, Howard, was recently on holiday in the Scottish Highlands and Islands and posted loads of photos on Facebook. The one on...
The Mukurob (Finger Of God)
So after finishing Hazel Soan's African Watercolours I wanted to strike while the iron was hot and paint something influenced by the book. For...
Queendown Warren Car Park
So here's my first ever charcoal painting. It's of the entrance to a car park in Queendown Warren, somewhere between Hartlip and Medway Services....
Charcoal Swatching
My Jackson’s order finally made it through yesterday so I was almost ready to start using the charcoals but first I set out to the shops. I...
AveryA
I quite fancied putting up my feet today and continuing to read the latest Guy Gavriel Kay novel out in the studio with the cricket on the iPad in...
Birthday Stash 2023
Right. The post has arrived and I'm pretty sure that I won't be getting any more birthday presents for another year, so it's time for me to share...
Tundra Colours
This painting was long overdue. I'd had these tundra colours for a while and had painted a few snowy scenes in Nuuk, Greenland plus the odd U.K....
Look Over Yonder
I'm still on the watercolours today but not in the mood to work long and hard at a painting. Maybe it's because The Ashes are on; maybe it's...
Sky Above Hartlip Church
I'm back on to watercolours today and onto my proper palette rather than following any Schmincke supergranulator cheat codes, much as a love...
Miriam In Inktense Pencil
After three days off at Upchurch art and craft fair and a day off chilling on Monday (for which read housework, daily German lesson, daily four...