Back on the road again. But now that my pastel-based application to Landscape Artist Of The Year has been rejected I'm not feeling obliged to paint...
Watercolour
Meghan Parnell
I've been feeling portrait withdrawal symptoms, so I'm back to what I enjoy most today. This is Meghan Parnell, vocalist in Bywater Call. According...
Somewhere I Can Walk Alone
So, after that disaster, I thought I'd have another go at the same simple scene in Queendown Warren. This time, my intentions were to only use two...
Lonely Avenue
The chess is still going on today but I was expecting four boring draws in the mens' games, so thought I'd get back to painting with a loose...
I Don’t Live Today
Mondays are always busy for me and I wasn't planning on doing a painting. But with three days of chess coming up, I thought I should prepare...
Smile You Son Of A Bitch
It's a rest day in the FIDE masters and, with no chess to watch, I've been 100% focused on painting. Today's subject is Roy Scheider starring as...
Sean Lock
Today I've been painting a portrait of the late Sean Lock. It's a posterised painting using the trippy colour scheme and following my usual process...
Paul Merson
I started off intending to keep pressing my case for PAOTY but halfway through this one got the rejection email. It will be at least another year...
Big Ron Atkinson
Got or keep going with these posterised portraits. Twelve days to go before the PAOTY lineup is announced. Looking through my waiting list of...
Yeah, Life Was Just A Bet On A Race Between The Lights
Back to business and it's the business of creating posterised watercolour portraits for the benefit of any visiting PAOTY judges. Pulp Fiction was...
Holly Lodge
I was asked to do a painting of this bungalow in Hartlip. It's recently been sold and the former neighbours wanted to give them a painting as a...
Rik Mayall
Keeping going with the posterised portraits. Today's subject is the late Rik Mayall playing Squadron Commander Lord Flasheart in Blackadder Goes...
Mr. Wint And Mr. Kidd
Diamonds Are Forever was on the telly the other night and inspired me into painting a portrait of nefarious duo Mr. Wint (left, played by Bruce...
The Invitation
Will it be third time lucky? This will be another made up landscape. And the colours will again be Payne's grey, Mayan blue genuine and burnt...
If You’ve Never Failed, You’ve Not Experimented Enough
After that huge flop, I needed to have another go. I switched to my regular palette, making my main three colours Payne's grey, Mayan blue genuine...
Big Flop – Please Scroll Past
OK, this is the first of three paintings today. After a pair of paintings supporting my LAOTY and PAOTY entries, I thought I deserved some fun...
Karen Of Mountbatten-Windsorius
Back to posterised watercolour portraits today. I fancied trying to reproduce the outer spacey look of Miles Davis, so hunted around for a Star...
Thomas Tuchel
When I asked ChatGPT for feedback on Miles Davis, it started raving about how that painting looked like a constellation against a starry...
Miles Davis
Back to watercolour portraits again. I'm more optimistic about my PAOTY chances than my LAOTY chances but I have to keep going at both. I saw...
Harcourt Fenton Mudd
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...