It's also Lizzie's birthday today, so here's another portrait. I think this is more recognisably Lizzie than Amanda was Amanda. You can see from...
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Amanda
I'm quite getting into this portrait drawing with markers, although I still have a long way to go before I can call myself anything near...
View Of Cafe Nero From Costa
I'm in London today, off to see Tedeschi Trucks Band and Blackberry Smoke at Wembley Arena. Should be good. Anyway, I thought I'd take the...
Clive
Another portrait. This is Clive the bantering butcher from the local farmshop at MB Farms (http://www.mbfarms.co.uk/index.html) in Stockbury,...
Jimbo
More Tuesday portraiture and it's another bassist and Facebook friend. This is Jimbo, a mate from school, bassist with grungy rock duo Matildaz...
Roy With A Beard
It's Tuesday and Sky Portrait Artist Of The Year is on later, so I was in the mood for a bit of portraiture. Obviously using markers. I'm nowhere...
Day Trip To Canterbury
I nipped into Canterbury today for lunch with an old work colleague and thought I'd make a day of it by getting there early and giving the markers...
Nathan In Colour
My first exercise with these new markers was to trace out the picture I'd drawn of Nathan a couple of months ago and apply a bit of colour to it....
Father And Son
That review of Drawing On The Right Side Of The Brain is coming soon, I promise!
Drawing On The Right Side Of The Brain – Progress Update
I still have one book from my birthday left to read and review. It's Drawing On The Right Side Of The Brain by Betty Edwards. I'm about 40% of...
DNA
And here's the second of the day. This is all out abstract. I cracklepasted a board a couple of days ago (with watercolour ground applied to the...
Schneesturm
Two paintings today, both on cracklepasted board and both with the help of acrylic inks to bring out the cracks. This is the first. This one...
Key Street, Florida
First things first. This painting was inspired by a photo by Harvey Jones that I saw on the BBC website. He has a Flickr account...
Stormy Abstract
And here's my second effort of the day. Another with a specially prepared crackle paste surface. This time, the special guest in the surface was...
The Hills Are Alive
I think it must have been four days ago when I prepared a couple of crackle paste surfaces for painting. I started painting on them yesterday but...
Bramble’s
Today's job was to prepare a couple of experimental crackle paste surfaces to use later in the week but I found myself pining to do some painting,...
Now What Are You Barking At?
And here's my latest Jane Betteridge inspired painting on an unusual surface. It's my first go using crackle paste. I bought an acrylic canvas...
Mount Rushmore
Now this is more like it! A painting on an experimental surface that worked. The faces were all torn out of the Mail On Sunday dated 11 August...
Blue Skye
After reading that Jane Betteridge book, I thought it was time to start painting on some unusual surfaces. First up was painting on a map. I...
Shell Ginger
I thought I'd have a ago at some Jean Haines style painting today by painting a shell ginger flower. The flowers are white on the outside and...