Other Subject Matter

Ozzy Osbourne

Today it's the late Ozzy Osbourne of Black Sabbath who does a week ago just 17 days after performing in his farewell concert. I picked out this...

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The Duchess

Today's subject is The Duchess, vocalist in the band Space Elevator. I picked a source photo in which she was wearing a stripy top as these tend...

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Little Wing

Just a portrait of a giraffe today, albeit one with a bird attached to its neck. This one was inspired by a holiday photo in Zimbabwe by Derek, an...

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Bob Weir

July has been too hot for painting. I've made it home from my morning walks and not had the energy to do anything other than read a book. From...

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One Rainy Wish

July is looking like a slow month. There's just too much sun at the moment; I get back from my morning walk and I'm to trashed to paint. This is...

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The Black Hills

I've had twelve paintings up on the wall of the restaurant at the Rose & Crown for a while now. Occasionally the odd one is sold but the...

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Ned’s Ghost

I was saddened to hear yesterday about the death of Wayne Larkins, an aggressive English batsman from the 1970s and 1980s. If he'd been playing in...

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Hedy Lamarr

Today's painting is a portrait of the actress Hedy Lamarr. I saw a photo of her and the highlights and shadows were just screaming out to be...

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The Wrong Kind Of Snow

After all that fun yesterday with the tundra supergranulators, I was ready to give them another go today, with another snowy mountain scene but one...

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Police Chief Clancy O’Hara

My plan today was to give the potters' pink a good workout and, in particular, to use some of the more interesting mixes it makes with some of the ...

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Doctor Zaius

It was always going to happen. Today's subject is Doctor Zaius from the Planet Of The Apes TV series, played by Booth Colman. After painting Galen...

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Urko

A late start today, not been for my walk yet, thinking ahead to the England game and a bit obsessive about not wanting a day away from reading...

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Galen

Time for an Artgraf painting today. There's a portrait that I did of Duane Allman two years go today where I wondered whether I should have stopped...

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The Cage

Not a long afternoon for me today, so I went for a quick portrait with the crystalline watercolours. The subject today is Susan Oliver playing...

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Gravitational Waves

I've done a few patchwork portraits in the past. These are where I come up with a two value plan for a portrait, mask out the whites and then...

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