The 2023 Artistic Actuary video is now ready. It's too big to load up onto this website but you can see it at https://youtu.be/96MxHz6CDJo Almost...
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Tracey
This is Tracey, a friend of the family. She dabbles in painting herself and gave us. Painting of our dog Ruby last Christmas and it's been at the...
Annual Self Portrait 2024
So at last I've finally done a self portrait in watercolour. I was in the mood for supergranulators today and picked out the tundra set. I...
The Under The Desk Collection
Well, I can tell you that I will definitely be entering for Portrait Artist Of The Year again this time around. Because, even if I don't have any...
Under The Desk IV
And that's the Under The Desk collection completed. For the colour scheme I chose the grey markers, putting down some vague value shapes and then...
Under The Desk III
Here's the third in the under the desk collection. Today The main two colours were my light and dark green. Just as with the previous two...
Under The Desk II
Look, I'm allowed to change my mind, OK? Yesterday's portrait grew on me and Monday tends to be a short day, so I thought I'd continue with the...
Under The Desk I
Applications for Portrait Artist Of The Year need to be in by the end of January, so I thought I'd better make a start on the 2024 self portrait...
Chris Robinson
This is Chris Robinson, vocalist and occasional harmonica or guitar player in The Chris Robinson Brotherhood and The Black Crowes and master of dad...
Roy Wood
With one page left in my rough watercolourpaper block and that page starting to come away at the edges, I wanted to do another watercolour today...
What Happens In Manchester Stays In Manchester
Yesterday was a day for oil pastels, so I took a look through the box of CDs that I currently have out in the studio, seeking potential portrait...
DanM
Since reading the Douglas Graves book, I've been intending to try out some figure drawing with the charcoal. I got around to it today with...
Joe Strummer
I'm back from the Upchurch art exhibition now and my studio's all back to normal. I only sold the one painting, The Happiest Days Of Our Lives...
InnaBG
I'm back on the Artrafs today, aware of my promise from last time to hold back on the blue and not make the darks too dark. So here goes. It's a...
Ameeka
Back on the Artgrafs today, and I'm painting Ameeka for the first time. I thought I’d try replicating the success of Thea 5 by using the exact...
The Corbomite Manouver Collection
And here they are, all together. Spock, Kirk and Scotty. None of them brilliant individual paintings but as a set of three I think they look...
First Officer Spock
I know I said I might not end up completing the Corbomite Manouver Collection but after putting Kirk and Scotty alongside each other I could see...
Venus And The Petrova Line
I'm back on the planets again and today it's Venus. It took me a long time to come up with an idea about how to make a painting of Venus a bit...
Mick Fleetwood
You know what? I did end up finding a photo of Mick Fleetwood that would make a great portrait. It was a pretty monochrome photo and was close to...
Krys
Still not feeling the watercolours so today's an Artgraf day. It's also a day of experimentation because I've bought a hot pressed watercolour...