Watercolour

Hartlip War Memorial

It's been a while since I last went on a dash & splash so I thought I'd give it a go today. How this works is that I head outside and do some...

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Doctor Zachary Smith

Sometimes I receive messages and I just have to act on them. I had the telly to myself last night and managed to find a 1960 episode of The...

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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...

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Lewes Castle In Blue And Orange

I didn't waste any time sitting around thinking about doing a blue and orange painting and went straight into action this morning with another...

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The Magic Of Queendown Warren

I wanted to have a go at a painting in the style of those in the Waltraud Nawratil book. I picked another of those views that I see in the North...

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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...

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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...

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The Earps

After discovering Friday's disaster I wanted to come up with a proper painting of The Earps as quickly as possible. Ā This was finished ar about...

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Three Famous Gunslingers

<Edit: The day after I painted and posted this one I found that I'd screwed up. Ā The guy on the right is Frank James, not Virgil Earp. Ā That...

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Windsor Castle

Another watercolour landscape today and another one completed not long after lunch. Ā I can feel myself settling into a routine of painting in the...

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Nuuk Cathedral

Day two of my three watercolour landscapes in three days challenge and today it's buildings day. Ā I picked out a scene in Nuuk that had a church in...

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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...

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Lewes Castle

Here's a question for you. Ā Who had a UK number one in the 1979s with D.I.V.O.R.C.E.? Ā Good guess but you're wrong. Ā It was Billy Connolly with a...

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Secret Tunnel Under The M2

The weather forecast said that this afternoon would be a lot warmer than yesterday, that the morning's wind would have calmed down and that there...

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The Planets

So here they are all together, The Planets series of paintings. Ā Eat your heart out, Gustav Holst. This, I should add, is a series of paintings...

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Flatter To Deceive

I've finally gotten around to completing my Planets collection with a portrait of Earth. Ā I don't know why this has taken so long because I've had...

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