Still too many things going on at the moment for me to have much time to paint but I did have the time today to give the Inktense pencils a...
Category: Paintings Named After
Keeping His Promise
I've not done much painting this year. It's partly due to having too many other distractions and partly due to the days still feeling too short....
And The Birds Up On The Wires And The Telegraph Poles
Still beavering away today at building up a stockpile of local landscapes to display at the Rose & Crown and, in particular, landscapes in soft...
Crash Landing
And here's the companion piece to go with 1983…(A Merman I Should Turn To Be). The process for painting it is exactly the same. Both paintings...
1983…(A Merman I Should Turn To Be)
I wanted to do something today that didn't involve using a photographic source. The idea was that I could watch the World Championship Chess at...
Messing Around
It's been a whole week since I last posted. Sorry about that. Too much other stuff on. Choosing a bathroom, choosing blinds, attending an 80th...
Untitled Basic Track
The nights are fair drawin' in and the days are getting colder. I thought it was cold enough today to dig out the oil pastels again. I've not used...
Long Hot Summer Night
This is another painting that's been brewing for a while. If I don't look at the clouds and see naked women, what else is there to see? Well,...
Could It Be Magic?
Today I quite fancied putting dry pigment down on the paper and wetting it. I'd already picked out a photo of Barry Manilow that might look good...
And The Dirty Old Track Was The Lower Hartlip Road
After reading the Sandra Orme book, I'm straight in with a sky painting. What with me having a set of "cloudy sky" colours with no reds and my...
The Touch Of Pan
Something a bit different today. This frying pan was going to be thrown out and replaced so I thought I'd grab it and paint it. if I was doing...
And, By The Way, Which One Is Pink?
With there still being a bit of paint left on the Schmincke dot card, I thought I'd have another go at an abstract portrait rather than leave it...
Freebird!
This one's been coming for a while. It's a portrait of Allen Collins and Gary Rossington, two of the founder members of Lynyrd Skynyrd and I'm...
Camp Of The Dog
No book reviews or swatches today. It's time to start trying out all these new art supplies, starting with the crystalline watercolour. For subject...
No Ma’am: We’re Musicians
Monday’s always a short day for me, so I thought this would be the perfect excuse to take a break from the posterised Newington landscapes and to...
The Lane That Ran East And West
After seeing none of my portraits selling at the Upchurch art & craft exhibition over the weekend, discussing a couple of landscape exhibiting...
The Transfer
Today's painting is based on a photo taken by an old friend Olly while (I believe) on holiday in Portugal. He said it had an Edward Hopper feel to...
The Man Who Found Out
After fixing a load of charcoal paintings the other day, I was in the mood for some charcoal action but took the day off yesterday to have another...
When I’m Paid I Always See The job Through
I can't do too many watercolours in a row without pining for a change of media so I was in the coloured pencils today, doing a portrait of Angel...
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...