Watercolour

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,...

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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...

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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...

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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....

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Temple of Saturn, Rome

Number two son just announced he's off with some mates to Bremen, Split and Rome so I'm using this as an excuse to get in some much needed...

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Carlo Ancelotti

Back into my comfort zone today with a posterised portrait using the Shire colours, following my usual process. This is Carlo Ancelotti, one of...

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Blobby Blobby Blobby

I've been told I need to do some more fish paintings. And that fish in the posterised trippy scheme work better than fish in the posterised tundra...

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Here He Comes

Tuesday's angelfish went so well that I thought I'd have mother go at a camouflaged fish in posterised style. This could end up becoming a series...

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Sweet Angel

Number one son was asking whether I’d ever painted a fish. I think he was hoping to be able to give a fish painting as a present for two of his...

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