Back to watercolours today. I've played all the Grateful Dead in the box of CDs that currently sits in my studio, so I won't be jamming with the...
Category: Supergranulators
John Henry Holliday
Yeah, June is taking a while to get started and I've gone for another easy option. It's a posterised portrait and, not only that, I've pretty well...
Billy The Kid
I felt like doing a portrait today. I've been doing a lot of landscapes in an attempt to impress LAITY judges (newsflash: I've not made it to a...
Damn You All To Hell!
Now this is a landscape that's been on my to do list for a while. It's the closing scene from the original Planet Of The Apes film back in...
Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin
There was a certain man in Russia long ago. He was big, he was strong, in his eyes a flaming glow. Most people looked at him with terror and with...
The Earps
After discovering Friday's disaster I wanted to come up with a proper painting of The Earps as quickly as possible. Â 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. Â The guy on the righteous Frank James, not Virgil Earp. Â That...
Nuuk Cathedral
Day two of my three watercolour landscapes in three days challenge and today it's buildings day. Â 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...
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...
Frank Bough
Of all the celebrities ever to have been disgraced after being caught in a tabloid sting, Frank Bough is the most likely to raise a smile and the...
Brian Clough’s Finger
I thought I'd have a go at painting Brian Clough today. Â It was always going to happen at some point. Â I had a choice between source photos and...
Towards Leysdown-On-Sea
The weather forecast was for quite a mild day with no rain, so I packed up for another plein air trip. Â Today I felt like a trip to the seaside and...
Cornelius
Ok so, as I said last time, I asked the spreadsheet on the iPad what to paint next it told me to paint a portrait using the Shire supergranulators...
The Avengers 1965-67
And here they are together, Steed and Mrs Peel. Â They go quite brilliantly together and are up for sale as a pair.
Mrs Emma Peel
It was always going to happen. Â Steed needed a partner. Â I decided to go for Mrs Peel, a character that was sure to make a great painting. After...
Major The Hon. John Wickham Gascoyne Beresford Steed
This one took me a couple of days but it was worth it. Â I picked out John Steed as played by the late Patrick MacNee in The Avengers and The New...
Heading Home, Queendown Warren
I wanted to try something different today. Â I've had a go at doing a conventional landscape painting in three glazes using the Notanizer app. Â The...
Inside New Court, Christ’s College
I needed to paint something other than portraits and, while looking around my Cambridge college's website, hit upon the idea of painting the inside...
Three-One!
Something about that Joe Jordan painting yesterday put me in a nostalgic mood and wanting to keep going back to the 1978 World Cup. Â And the...