I didn't know what I wanted to do today so asked my iPad for ideas. It suggested that I do a portrait using markers. If I do a portrait with the...
6. Recurring Themes/Styles
The Planets
So here they are all together, The Planets series of paintings. Eat your heart out, Gustav Holst. This, I should add, is a series of paintings...
Flatter To Deceive
I've finally gotten around to completing my Planets collection with a portrait of Earth. I don't know why this has taken so long because I've had...
Joe Walsh
Today's painting is a portrait of Joe Walsh of The Eagles, someone who in his heyday was probably even more fun at parties than Frank Bough....
Frank Bough
Of all the celebrities ever to have been disgraced after being caught in a tabloid sting, Frank Bough is the most likely to raise a smile and the...
M2 Medway Crossing Under Three Different Skies
So here’s the thing. I need to put my Landscape Artist Of The Year entry together by around the end of April. My best landscape over the last...
Brian Clough’s Finger
I thought I'd have a go at painting Brian Clough today. It was always going to happen at some point. I had a choice between source photos and...
Ardbeg Distillery
I'm back to painting distilleries. Today it's the Ardbeg Distillery on the island of Islay. I've deviated a bit from my normal rule here as I...
Towards Leysdown-On-Sea
The weather forecast was for quite a mild day with no rain, so I packed up for another plein air trip. Today I felt like a trip to the seaside and...
Rochester Castle From The Cathedral
For the first time in 2024, the weather forecast was warm enough and dry enough for me to venture out painting. Like a very bad penalty taker I...
A Clockwork Orange
Another watercolour today. This is based on a publicity shot for A Clockwork Orange, a famous 1971 Stanley Kubrick film. With the white face and...
Third Court Room, Christ’s College
Back to Christ's College tidy for another indoor landscape. This is a room in Third Court, probably in Y staircase. My third year room was in W...
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...
The Avengers 1965-67
And here they are together, Steed and Mrs Peel. They go quite brilliantly together and are up for sale as a pair. To see the price, click here.
Mrs Emma Peel
It was always going to happen. Steed needed a partner. I decided to go for Mrs Peel, a character that was sure to make a great painting. After...
Major The Hon. John Wickham Gascoyne Beresford Steed
This one took me a couple of days but it was worth it. I picked out John Steed as played by the late Patrick MacNee in The Avengers and The New...
Vasquez Rocks
Today I'm back to old ways, not just painting a landscape but also allowing colours to mix on the paper and in the palette rather than just...
The Buttery, Christ’s College
Today I'm back to painting after a few days off getting my feet under the table in a correspondence chess tournament. And I'm back with another of...
Hale And Pace
Today I've been painting Hale and Pace, a comedy double act from the 1980s and 90s. Sometimes you see a photo and you just have to turn it into a...
Fleabag
A lot of my recent watercolour portraits seem to have been painted from a distance, including bodies, hands and things like that. I wanted to go...