It was always going to happen. Steed needed a partner. I decided to go for Mrs Peel, a character that was sure to make a great painting. After...
Supergranulators
Major The Hon. John Wickham Gascoyne Beresford Steed
This one took me a couple of days but it was worth it. 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. I've had a go at doing a conventional landscape painting in three glazes using the Notanizer app. 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. And the...
Joe Jordan
Today I have been mostly painting a portrait of Joe Jordan. As he's wearing a Scotland shirt it seemed appropriate to paint this one with three...
Gary Moore
After managing to capture the face that Warren Haynes pulls when he hits a high note, I thought I'd thought I'd try a repeat performance by...
Tres Hombres
I wanted to have another go at painting ZZ Top after failing so badly a couple of days ago. This time, though, it would be in watercolour and...
Albert King
Today's painting is a long overdue subject and a less overdue experiment. The subject is guitarist Albert King. I've been making my way through...
Saturn
I really do need to finish my collection of planet paintings at some point so I'm back on the case today with Saturn. For a while my plan had been...
Annual Self Portrait 2024
So at last I've finally done a self portrait in watercolour. I was in the mood for supergranulators today and picked out the tundra set. I...
Lula’s Spot
I've done another painting of Queendown Warren today. This isa bench that I walk past pretty well every day. If it's been raining a lot, I go for...
The Corbomite Manouver Collection
And here they are, all together. Spock, Kirk and Scotty. None of them brilliant individual paintings but as a set of three I think they look...
First Officer Spock
I know I said I might not end up completing the Corbomite Manouver Collection but after putting Kirk and Scotty alongside each other I could see...
Captain James Tiberius Kirk
Today I had a go at the second in The Corbomite Manouver collection. Today it's Captain Kirk, painted using the Shire supergranulators, befitting...
Chief Engineer Montgomery Scott
Sometimes great ideas come into my head on my daily walks. Today was one of those days. Earlier this year I put together The Good The Bad and the...
Uranus
After a bit of a break, I'm back on the planets again. Today it's Uranus. All eight planets revolve around the sun in roughly the same plane and...
The Face Of Mars
Another day, another planet. My latest idea for planet paintings (to go with the ideas of random surrealness and Roman gods) is to think about...
Neptune
This is the second in my series of paintings of the planets and today it's Neptune. There was a question on University Challenge the other week...
Dalwhinnie Distillery
It's the weekend and the builders are off for the weekend so I'm back in the studio for a couple of days. What to paint though? Well, I can't...