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...
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The Earps
After discovering Friday's disaster I wanted to come up with a proper painting of The Earps as quickly as possible. This was finished ar about...
Three Famous Gunslingers
<Edit: The day after I painted and posted this one I found that I'd screwed up. The guy on the right is Frank James, not Virgil Earp. That...
Windsor Castle
Another watercolour landscape today and another one completed not long after lunch. I can feel myself settling into a routine of painting in the...
BethR
A few things to do today so I thought I'd have the day off and read a book but the kindle battery died on me during the afternoon so I thought I'd...
Nuuk Cathedral
Day two of my three watercolour landscapes in three days challenge and today it's buildings day. I picked out a scene in Nuuk that had a church in...
Climate Change In City Of Rocks National Reserve
I need to get back to painting more landscapes, so that I can be ready for Landscape Artist Of The Year if selected as a pod artist or as a...
Alan Shearer
Lots of stuff going on at the moment so I thought I'd be better off just going for a quick inktense pencil painting today and give the sepia...
Ally MacLeod
A grim day today with a power cut in the morning and then no WiFi when the power came back on so I'm grabbing a sneaky coffee in Costa while I...
The City
After yesterday's experimentation I wanted to use all the lessons from it as quickly as possible, so that's what I've been doing today. I started...
Because The Night
I was in an experimental mood today. I wanted to try out more of my new Inktense pencil colours, the saddle brown and sepia ink not having been...
Lewes Castle
Here's a question for you. Who had a UK number one in the 1979s with D.I.V.O.R.C.E.? Good guess but you're wrong. It was Billy Connolly with a...
Yaugher Lane, Queendown Warren
We’re getting close to that time of year when the oil pastels start melting in my hands and become unusable so, with today being a lot colder than...
Secret Tunnel Under The M2
The weather forecast said that this afternoon would be a lot warmer than yesterday, that the morning's wind would have calmed down and that there...
Purdey
I wanted to give some of my new inktense pencils a runout, so that's what I'm going today. And with three of those new colours being fleshy...
The Persuaders! Collection
And here they are together, The Persuaders! Lord Brett Sinclair works better as one of a pair than he did on his own. What I find fascinating...
Lord Brett Sinclair
And here's my second marker portrait of the day, Lord Brett Sinclair played by Sir Roger Moore. Just like Danny Wilde, he's in monotone greys but...
Danny Wilde
I didn't know what I wanted to do today so asked my iPad for ideas. It suggested that I do a portrait using markers. If I do a portrait with the...
The Planets
So here they are all together, The Planets series of paintings. Eat your heart out, Gustav Holst. This, I should add, is a series of paintings...
Flatter To Deceive
I've finally gotten around to completing my Planets collection with a portrait of Earth. I don't know why this has taken so long because I've had...