And here's the final one in the collection. We have sports journalist Henry Winter and the late Johnny Winter. I've already done portraits using...
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Autumn Reeser In Red And Green
Next up is Autumn Reeser. She's an American actress but I have to be honest here and admit to never having heard of her before now. According to...
Donna Summer In Blue And Orange
Next up in this collection is (maybe not a surprise to some) Donna Summer. I've painted her in blue and orange. Once again I've kind of got a...
Les Dawson
After almost a week off, I'm back to painting today. After seeing how the M Graham landscape colours resulting quite restrained, grown up...
Could It Be Magic?
Today I quite fancied putting dry pigment down on the paper and wetting it. I'd already picked out a photo of Barry Manilow that might look good...
Miss Magnolia Muse
OK then, I’ve built up a decent reserve of paintings for when any are sold at the Rose & Crown and need replacing. I can get back to painting...
The Tryst
I had another go at a sky painting in soft pastels today but I'm already veering off the beaten path by going for a cloud formation that looks like...
And The Dirty Old Track Was The Lower Hartlip Road
After reading the Sandra Orme book, I'm straight in with a sky painting. What with me having a set of "cloudy sky" colours with no reds and my...
The Touch Of Pan
Something a bit different today. This frying pan was going to be thrown out and replaced so I thought I'd grab it and paint it. if I was doing...
Sir Geoff Hurst
I had to order a load of paints and paper from Jackson’s the other day and was delighted to see another dot card thrown in as. Free extra. This...
Towards Where Warren Cottage Should Be
I’m still trying to build up a reserve supply of paintings that could replace any that are sold at the Rose & Crown. After three successive...
Early Twentieth Century Hartlip
Time to work on building up a reserve of paintings ready to display at the Rose & Crown when others are sold. For today's subject I picked out...
In From The Storm
The news came through last night that two of my paintings that were on display at at the Rose & Crown have been sold. So I needed to find a...
Weissenhof Estate, Stuttgart
The subject of today's painting is a building in the Weissenhof Estate in Stuttgart, a set of supermodern homes built for an exhibition on 1927....
Angus Young
Oh dear, this hasn’t been a great start to September. I wanted to give the fineliners another runout. To encourage myself to be looser with the...
Burnside Cottage, Fionnphort, Isle Of Mull
I'm still getting used to the NeolucidaXL. As the next step in my journey towards mastering its ways, I used it today to help me draw a simple...
Jesse Woodson James
For my first painting using the NeoLucida XL, I picked out a photo of Jesse James. I thought it would be a gentle way to make myself familiar with...
Peter Red, Peter Amber, Peter Green
It didn't take long for me to get around to painting Peter Green. I went for a triple portrait of Peter because his personal history made him a...
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Ok, so I've painted Devon Allman, Duane Allman, Eric Clapton, Allen Collins, Jerry Garcia, Billy Gibbons, David Gilmour, Warren Haynes. Jimi...
Ansleigh In Soft Pastel
I thought I'd better have a go at a figure with soft pastels today. I've used them for a landscape and a portrait, so only fair that they should be...