I caught about fifteen minutes of Enter The Dragon a couple of nights ago and was transfixed. All artists should watch films late at night. Not...
6. Recurring Themes/Styles
Easy Blue(s)
I'm not normally a great fan but I was watching the snooker last night and witnessed a great match. It went to the very last frame and I promised...
Mike Pratt
I was out of ideas today so took a look through all the photos I've been saving up for potential portraits. I came across a photo of the late actor...
I’ve Seen Desparation Explode Into Flames
I thought I deserved a treat today, so I've been working on my favourite subject with a self portrait. It's only my left eye, painted in oil...
I Don’t Like To Go Down To The Flats
Back on the road again. But now that my pastel-based application to Landscape Artist Of The Year has been rejected I'm not feeling obliged to paint...
Meghan Parnell
I've been feeling portrait withdrawal symptoms, so I'm back to what I enjoy most today. This is Meghan Parnell, vocalist in Bywater Call. According...
And Leave Myself Behind
The wether was right for plein air painting today so I was up and out the door at first light with my soft pastels. I drove over to Oare Gunpowder...
It Gives Me Peace Of Mind
It's a rest day in the chess, so I was back to the artwork today. And with Spring finally here, the plein air season has started. So I headed out...
I Don’t Live Today
Mondays are always busy for me and I wasn't planning on doing a painting. But with three days of chess coming up, I thought I should prepare...
Pieces
I'm addicted to the chess at the moment and it's come through in a couple of ways in today's painting. First there's the subject matter and the...
Smile You Son Of A Bitch
It's a rest day in the FIDE masters and, with no chess to watch, I've been 100% focused on painting. Today's subject is Roy Scheider starring as...
Got The Rain In My Face
The FIDE Candidates tournament is on at the moment and I'm already addicted after three of the fourteen rounds. So I'm watching the chess all...
Sean Lock
Today I've been painting a portrait of the late Sean Lock. It's a posterised painting using the trippy colour scheme and following my usual process...
Country Home Guitar Solo
The coloured pencils have taken a back seat for a while now, so time to give them an opportunity to do their stuff. I was watching a YouTube video...
Paul Merson
I started off intending to keep pressing my case for PAOTY but halfway through this one got the rejection email. It will be at least another year...
Big Ron Atkinson
Got or keep going with these posterised portraits. Twelve days to go before the PAOTY lineup is announced. Looking through my waiting list of...
Yeah, Life Was Just A Bet On A Race Between The Lights
Back to business and it's the business of creating posterised watercolour portraits for the benefit of any visiting PAOTY judges. Pulp Fiction was...
Holly Lodge
I was asked to do a painting of this bungalow in Hartlip. It's recently been sold and the former neighbours wanted to give them a painting as a...
Hovis Hill In The Snow
After two posterised watercolour portraits this week, I took a break today from Artist Of The Year promotions to do something different. I was...
Rik Mayall
Keeping going with the posterised portraits. Today's subject is the late Rik Mayall playing Squadron Commander Lord Flasheart in Blackadder Goes...