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...
Watercolour
Queendown Warren In Three Complementary Colour Schemes
Not much time to paint again today but I do need to keep in practice. I decided to go for an experimental painting that wouldn't take much...
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...
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...
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...
The Earps
After discovering Friday's disaster I wanted to come up with a proper painting of The Earps as quickly as possible. This was finished ar about...
Three Famous Gunslingers
<Edit: The day after I painted and posted this one I found that I'd screwed up. The guy on the right is Frank James, not Virgil Earp. That...
Windsor Castle
Another watercolour landscape today and another one completed not long after lunch. I can feel myself settling into a routine of painting in the...
Nuuk Cathedral
Day two of my three watercolour landscapes in three days challenge and today it's buildings day. I picked out a scene in Nuuk that had a church in...
Climate Change In City Of Rocks National Reserve
I need to get back to painting more landscapes, so that I can be ready for Landscape Artist Of The Year if selected as a pod artist or as a...
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...
Lewes Castle
Here's a question for you. Who had a UK number one in the 1979s with D.I.V.O.R.C.E.? Good guess but you're wrong. It was Billy Connolly with a...
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...
The Planets
So here they are all together, The Planets series of paintings. Eat your heart out, Gustav Holst. This, I should add, is a series of paintings...
Flatter To Deceive
I've finally gotten around to completing my Planets collection with a portrait of Earth. I don't know why this has taken so long because I've had...
Frank Bough
Of all the celebrities ever to have been disgraced after being caught in a tabloid sting, Frank Bough is the most likely to raise a smile and the...
M2 Medway Crossing Under Three Different Skies
So here’s the thing. I need to put my Landscape Artist Of The Year entry together by around the end of April. My best landscape over the last...
Brian Clough’s Finger
I thought I'd have a go at painting Brian Clough today. It was always going to happen at some point. I had a choice between source photos and...
Ardbeg Distillery
I'm back to painting distilleries. Today it's the Ardbeg Distillery on the island of Islay. I've deviated a bit from my normal rule here as I...
Towards Leysdown-On-Sea
The weather forecast was for quite a mild day with no rain, so I packed up for another plein air trip. Today I felt like a trip to the seaside and...