A first go with charcoal this year. Today's subject is Thea, making her sixth appearance, hence the unimaginative name of this one. I was shocked,...
Other Subject Matter
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...
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...
JenB Eyeing Rogue Spot
Up late today and the League Cup Final's on later but I did have the time for another figure painting with the inktense pencils. Today's model is...
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...
Isabella
At the time of writing, it looks like it's been six days since my last painting but looks can be deceptive. Because I was busy with another...
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...
Mr. Wint And Mr. Kidd
Diamonds Are Forever was on the telly the other night and inspired me into painting a portrait of nefarious duo Mr. Wint (left, played by Bruce...
Karen Of Mountbatten-Windsorius
Back to posterised watercolour portraits today. I fancied trying to reproduce the outer spacey look of Miles Davis, so hunted around for a Star...
Jackson’s Art Prize Extended Longlist
Today's big news is that The Wrong Kind Of Snow has made it on to the Jacksons Art Prize extended longlist. Out of 16,280 entries, only 4,200...
And It Makes Me Wonder
Looks like I'm taking a break from LAOTY and PAOTY prep this week then because today I fancied giving the crystalline water colours their first...
Raven S In Coloured Pencil
As expected, after Wednesday's effort, I had to come up with a coloured pencil figure today. Today's model is Raven S, someone who worked out well...
























