Back in the 1970s we had this "thing" called professional wrestling. It was a pantomime-esquire acting performance dressed up like a sporting...
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Eilean Donan Castle, Dornie
Back to soft pastel landscapes again, and to coming up with a set of submissions for Landscape Artist Of The Year. Looking through the huge set of...
Alan Davies
Right, time to get down to some proper work and to produce some posterised paintings that will impress the Portrait Artist Of The Year judges when...
The Singular Death Of Morton
Still too many things going on at the moment for me to have much time to paint but I did have the time today to give the Inktense pencils a...
Keeping His Promise
I've not done much painting this year. It's partly due to having too many other distractions and partly due to the days still feeling too short....
And The Birds Up On The Wires And The Telegraph Poles
Still beavering away today at building up a stockpile of local landscapes to display at the Rose & Crown and, in particular, landscapes in soft...
View From The Lightning Tree, Queendown Warren
The year end hiatus is over and I'm back out in the studio. For once, my first punting after a break isn't an Inktense pencil figure: I've gone...
Crash Landing
And here's the companion piece to go with 1983…(A Merman I Should Turn To Be). The process for painting it is exactly the same. Both paintings...
1983…(A Merman I Should Turn To Be)
I wanted to do something today that didn't involve using a photographic source. The idea was that I could watch the World Championship Chess at...
Michael Portillo
I had quite a long afternoon free today so thought I'd have a go at a posterised watercolour portrait. Today's subject is faction icon and former...
CasD, Drinks Break
It's been nine days since my last painting. December is too busy a month. I hope I’ve not lost any readers during the hiatus. The break might have...
Slash
Today I have been mostly painting Slash. This is a posterised painting using the blue colour scheme, as described here, so the colour are cerulean...
Messing Around
It's been a whole week since I last posted. Sorry about that. Too much other stuff on. Choosing a bathroom, choosing blinds, attending an 80th...
Lee Carsley
It struck me, watching the football the other night, that the England interim manager Lee Carsley would make a great portrait subject. His eyes...
Kerri
After Saturday's fun with the Artgrafs, I wasn't ready to put them back in the drawer and fancied using them to paint a figure. Today's model is...
Oliver Reed
I’ve had a photo of Oliver Reed as Bill Sikes in Oliver! sitting around for a while waiting to be painted and today was the day when I was finally...
The Face Of Harakbut In Oil Pastel
The plan was to do another soft pastel painting today but looking through all my potential source photos I couldn’t help remembering how short I am...
Talisker Distillery
I was busy yesterday putting together my applications for Portrait and Landscaoe Artist Of The Year yesterday. The PAOTY deadline isn’t until 7...
Self Portrait 2025
As promised, it was a self portrait day today. I've seen people online talking about applying to Portrait Artist Of The Year, and it's got me...
PeachK
I didn't want to spend long painting today as (i) I want to finish the novel I'm reading, and (ii) want to make a start sketching tomorrow's...