After a pencil drawing and a painting yesterday, today it's time to give those inktense pencils a runout. And to have a proper go at some figure...
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The Frankenstein-Dracula Variation
After reading Painting By Design by Charles Reid, I felt ready to attempt my first watercolour portrait. It started off as the world chess...
The Trio
This one has been brewing for a month or so and I've now got it out of my system after buying some decent paper for pencil drawing (and possibly...
The Happiest Days Of Our Lives
Today's painting is dedicated to the recently departed Sir Alan Parker, who directed (as well as many other films) The Wall, a film featuring all...
All Roads Lead To Lady Churchill’s Rose Garden
This post was written on 30 July 2020 but is only being released now that the program has aired. Now, this is more like it. Not that I was ever...
Lady Churchill’s Rose Garden, Chartwell
This post was written on 30 July 2020 but is only being released now that the program has aired. I've had an amazing day today as a wildcard at...
The Rose & Crown, Hartlip
First the news. I will be heading along to filming of Landscape Artist Of The Year in a couple of days as a wildcard entry. That's why I've been...
Stephen Hawking Reading The Guardian
Ok. Time to try out the inktense pencils properly. I had two gos at doing a painting of a young Stephen Hawking reading The Guardian. The idea...
Archway Into St Michael’s & All Saints Church, Hartlip
Another bit of plein air painting and this time it's my local church in Hartlip. Just like last time, it's in the key of purple cool, made up of...
Stockbury Church
Time for a new experience. To get some practice in (just in case I make it on to Landscape Artist Of The Year as a wildcard) I thought I'd better...
And I’m Thumper!
Today's subject is Thumper from Diamonds Are Forever, played by actress Trina Parks. In this shot, Trina adopts what must be one of the greatest...
Christ’s College, Cambridge
I've still not given up hope of being invited into Sky Landscape Artist Of The Year as a wildcard, so with that competition likely to be focused on...
Lancashire Sunset
Today's painting was inspired by a photo by a guy called Brandon Lee Keefe of a sunset from St Peter's Church in Hersham. I say inspired rather...
(Two Of) The Hateful Eight
I thought it was about time I went back to my most popular series of paintings, the abstractified Westerns. Today, I found a still from The...
Marker Portraits Poll Results
So here are the results of my latest poll. Only a handful of surprises there. Bernardine Evaristo did better than I expected, James Coburn and...
The Glamour Of The Snow
I thought a bit of watercolour painting was overdue, so I've been out there this morning running off this little number. The thunder started as I...
Eli Wallach
Today on Portrait Artist Of The Week It was Clare Balding. I didn’t rate my chances of doing Clare justice so I've instead headed back to The...
And Introducing Horst Buchholz
And here's the last one in the set. It's Horst Buchholz as Chico. I'm not sure he's instantly recognisable unless you're looking at all seven...
The Hidden Gorilla
I've finished the experimental painting that I started on Thursday. I’ve added more watercolour. This again is mainly Prussian blue, Indian...
Yul Brynner
One more member of the Magnificent Seven. It's Yul Brynner as Chris Adams. I would say he's the coolest of the seven but I think Britt (James...