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Bob Willis

Look, I'll make this quick today.  I was in the mood to draw a portrait and decided to go for an oil pastel of the late Bob Willis.  I started...

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Katya’s Back

It's been five days since the last painting as I've not quite felt in the right mood and I know from experience that if I'm not in the right move...

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James Anderson

I was in the mood to do another oil pastel portrait today and I picked a source photo of James Anderson, the third highest wicket taking test...

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Candace

I'm on the watercolours again today.  In an attempt to find some form, I'm going for a colourful bit of figure drawing as that normally works out...

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Once Upon A Time In The West Again

Time for a watercolour again and today was looking like a good day to be painting in the garden.  After yesterday's success with a Western and the...

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She Wore A Yellow Ribbon

After such a miserable effort yesterday, I had to go back to the oil pastels today. With the watercolours it's still touch and go whether I can...

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BronwynS

So here's today's second effort.  A debut for BronwynS.  I won't spend too long writing this one up.  It doesn't deserve the time. I stared trying...

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The Return Of Jazmine

I'm doing two figure drawings today.  I bought a new cartridge pad the other week for my inktense drawings and started filling it out.  But then a...

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Rory Burns

I noticed the other day that I'd still not used my black oil pastel.  With watercolours, black's a pretty boring colour and a bad mixer.  I can...

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Annual Self Portrait 2022

It's time for the annual self portrait and after two years of inktense pencils, this year's portrait is in oil pastels.  I have a long way to go...

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KylieB Sitting On A Box

Back to the figure drawing with the inktense pencils today.  I've been doing a lot of these during 2022 and I expect people are getting bored with...

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KeiraG

I didn't want to go straight back to the oil pastels today.  I had this feeling that if I did go for them I'd be impatient and rushed.  Better to...

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Sarah Ann

After a few weeks away following the loss of my father, I'm back to the artwork.  And I'm glad I am.  It was great to spend an hour and a half away...

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Mika M, In Action

How about some figure drawing in oil pastel?  I've tried it once before, here, without success but that was when I'd only just got the watercolours...

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Ross Kemp

Wednesday night is Landscape Of The Year night.  But just before LAOTY is a repeat of Portrait Artist Of The Year that I don't watch, having seen...

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The Listener

My Dad's had a new kitchen fitted.  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.  And three days after the book was published, I've painted our cavalier...

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Nicole Vaunt

It's still too cold to be painting outside so I'm on the inktense pencils again.  Today's model is Nicole, making her debut. Because it's so cold...

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Michaela

It's still too cold outside to go back to watercolours (Sunday looks promising) so I'm back with the inktense pencils today.  Today's model is...

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Rhus’ Back

After all that fun with the markers, I thought I really should get back to doing some proper painting with the inktense pencils.  Today I'm back to...

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