Today's portrait subject is Harry Mudd, an interstellar conman, okayed by Roger C. Carmel in two episodes of Star Trek TOS. I went for the trippy...
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The Batphone
Another posterised portrait. This is Adam West and Burt Ward playing Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson in the 1960s Batman TV series. I deliberately...
From All Of These Signs Saying “Sorry But We’re Closed”
The Good, The Bad And The Ugly was on the telly the other day. It's one long gallery of painting ideas but the shot that sprang out at me this time...
Burning Of The Midnight Lamp
Yesterday's painting took a while and left me a little drained so I was tempted to take a day off today but I have a physio class tomorrow that...
Peter Wyngarde
Time for another posterised watercolour portrait in an attempt to impress the PAOTY judges. This is the late actor Peter Wyngarde who specialised...
John McVie
I’m still looking to come up with stuff in the same style as my Artist Of The Year submissions and that will hopefully impress any visiting judges....
Christine McVie And Lindsey Buckingham
Time to kick off the portrait season and to start impressing any visiting PAOTY judges. Today's subjects are former Fleetwood Mac members Christine...
A Secret Worship
For today's painting, the first serious painting of the year, I thought I'd try out something Christopher Stephen recently tried out on YouTube,...
Seven Local Landscapes
It's the new year. Welcome to 2026. My year end hiatus is officially over and I'm back into action. As usual, I needed to rattle out a no...
Tom Read Wilson
After a break of 27 days I was back to watercolour today. I thought I'd have a go at Tom Read Wilson, runner up in I'm A Celebrity 2025 and the...
Self Portrait 2026
After a sleep and a walk, I decided that yesterday'spainting wasn't going to be next year's official portrait me Portrait Artist Of The Year Entry....
How Do Mountains Hear?
It's that time of year when I need to start thinking about the next call for entries to portrait Artist Of The Year. And that means I need to come...
Haruki Murakamai
I’m back in action today. The chess is still keeping me busy and it wasn't until 7.30pm that I finished this one but I was determined to come up...
New Rising Sun
I’m back in action today after three days off. With the plan being to check out the National Portrait Gallery on Thursday, I really should be...
These Rivers Of Headlights, These Rivers Of Rain
I’ve been meaning to do a painting like this for a while, as there are a number of lines in Telegraph Road screaming out for something like this....
Then Came The Churches, Then Came The Schools
Another watercolour today and, for the first time in ages, it's not posterised. After doing some YouTubing, I was in the mood to put down a...
Lindsey Buckingham And Stevie Nicks
I saw the other day that the Buckingham Nicks album had been rereleased. This is the album that Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks recorded...
Hear My Freedom
Yesterday was a cracking day for artists. There was that feeling of rain in the air, the sky was overcast and everything felt wet without actually...
See The Winter, Taste The Snow, Feel The Cold, Hear The Wind, Smell The Reindeer
And here they are together: See The Winter, Taste The Snow, Feel The Cold and Hear The Wind, Smell The Reindeer. I couldn't decide whether to have...
Hear The Wind, Smell The Reindeer
And here's the other half of the diptych. The drawings on the back are Hear The Wind and Smell The Reindeer. This one was painted in parallel...