It was part 2 of the challenge today. After painting a rocky scene with the tundra supergranulators yesterday, I wanted to paint an Arctic scene...
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Abandoned Quarry Ruins, Carbilly Tor, Bodmin Moor
Right, enough messing about. I really should be doing more watercolour painting. I had an idea in my comfy chair last night at about midnight....
Adhira
I warning the mood for an oil pastel landscape today and spent ages looking through loads of photos on my iPad before deciding that all of them...
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...
Bridge Over The River Risopatron
So after that brief dalliance with the Artgrafs this morning, I was back to the watercolours in the afternoon. For subject matter, I picked out...
Warming Up With Collibrina
I was going through my folders of watercolour paintings yesterday, tidying them up ready for an art and craft fair later this month. And I found...
United Underworld
And here's the United Underworld collection all together. Catwoman maybe looks a little weak but, being drawn at a different distance and with her...
Catwoman
Gosh! And the Catwoman too! The four of them, their forces combined…why, the sum of the angels in that rectangle is too monstrous to...
The Joker
The Joker! Woi if only Oi had a nickel for every time he's foxed us! Yes, third up it's The Joker, played by Cesar Romero. I decided overnight...
The Riddler
The Riddler! Back to plague us with his criminal conundrums! Next up in the United Underworld collection is The Riddler, played by Frank Gorshin....
The Penguin
The Penguin! Pompous waddling master of foul play, maestro of a million ubiquitous umbrellas! We're off on another collection of marker portraits...
Heeeere’s Jonny
I’ve had an idea for another set of marker portraits to get started on but had just one page left in a sketchbook and didn't want the set to...
The Good, The Bad And The Ugly: The Collection
And here they are, all together. As I expected, their positives as a set are greater than the sum of their individual positives. They're up for...
Il Brutto
So here's part 3 of 3 and that's the collection complete. Tuco followed the same methodology as the previous two paintings so, what I did (and I'm...
Il Cattivo
Number two in my The Good, The Bad And The Ugly collection is Angel Eyes, the bad one, played by Lee Van Cleef. In allocating supergranulating...
Il Buono
It's been more than a year since I painted a scene from a Western and I'm returning to that subject big time with a set of three paintings based on...
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...
View From First Post Corner, Cambridge
So after that last painting I followed a footpath that I'm sure didn't exist back in my day into Fenn Ditton to grab a lunchtime pint at The...
The Long Reach, Cambridge
So today I headed out to the river to do some painting. Not being allowed to paint inside colleges and having my building draftmanship confidence...