I'm still making my way through my birthday presents but it isn't new art gear today: it's a new malt. An 18 year old Bunnahabhain from Islay...
All Supergranulators
Freebird!
This one's been coming for a while. It's a portrait of Allen Collins and Gary Rossington, two of the founder members of Lynyrd Skynyrd and I'm...
Station Road, Newington
And here's the last of my series of nine posterised paintings of Newington. It's based on a really old photo of Station Road, probably predating...
St. Mary The Virgin Church, Newington
Here we go. Number five in a collection of at least seven, probably nine, posterised paintings of Newington. Today I've finally bitten the bullet...
Mings Chinese Takeaway, Newington
Another Newington landscape tidy and once again it's using the Notanizer app. Today it's Mings Chinese Takeaway and I've painted it using the...
A Cold Day In Newington
I was approached by our local vicar the other day. As well as being vicar in Hartlip, he's also vicar in the neighbouring village of Newington. ...
Julijske Alpe, Slovenia
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...
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 LAOTY judges (newsflash: I've not made it to a pod...
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. 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. The guy on the right is Frank James, not Virgil Earp. That...
Nuuk Cathedral
Day two of my three watercolour landscapes in three days challenge and today it's buildings day. 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. It was always going to happen at some point. 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. 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...