Category: Animals

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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Highland Cow

Somebody local who works with number two son in the kitchen at the Rose & Crown expressed an interest in buying a painting of a highland cow if...

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Cornelius

Ok so, as I said last time, I asked the spreadsheet on the iPad what to paint next it told me to paint a portrait using the Shire supergranulators...

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Nevermore

Today would have been Edgar Allen Poe's 215th birthday. Ā I know this because I asked ChatGPT to name me a random celebrity born in January 19th....

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The Listener

My Dad's had a new kitchen fitted. Ā When I dropped in to see him, I rescued a bunch of old kitchen shelves from a skip in the drive with the...

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Ruby

I did say that Jean Haines had inspired me to go out and paint animals. Ā And three days after the book was published, I've painted our cavalier...

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The Far Country

I was feeling keen to start putting some of these Bridget Woods lessons into practice. Ā Part of the lesson was to put together the monotone...

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Moose On The Phoenix Trail

Reading that George Blacklock book during the week I started to think about how artists like Dali, Mageitte and Blacklock himself have common theme...

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Colour Bugs

Now that the squad is selected, it's time to follow up that trial of the reds with a full scale workout for the new set of colours. Ā Rather than...

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Still More Charlie, Dobbie And Mia

Had another attempt at Charlie, Dobbie and Mia. I'm getting pretty good at Charlie on the left and it's tending to look like the same portrait...

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Charlie, Dobbie And Mia Again

It's been a busy day. Ā Three works of art but two of them were so bad I'm not even going to show them here on the blog. The first was an attempt...

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Charlie, Dobbie And Mia

It's all very well putting together a collection of marker drawings of the Rose And Crown dogs, but I think the landlady wants a painting. Ā While a...

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Charlie

The artwork is slowing down for a while now as I'm working on another actuarial contract during the week now. Ā But at the weekend, I'm back from...

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Dobbie

Too distraught after a bad experience with the inktense pencils, I thought I'd have another go at Dobbie but with the markers. This has come out...

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Dobbie On The Sofa

Last night, when I nipped over to the Rose & Crown to pick up a takeaway (I had the duck pizza since you ask), the landlady suggested she might...

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