This post was written on 30 July 2019 but is only being released now that the program has aired. I've had an amazing day today as a wildcard at...
Category: Other Subject Matter
Hondo
I thought it was about time I did another Western silhouette painting as they're always popular. Today's painting is based on a still from Hondo, a...
Bledlow Poppy
Well, I had a go at rescuing what was left after those two experiments. I painted over the sky, the trees and the orange background fields using...
Failed Experiment Part 2
So, after that failed experiment, I thought I'd experiment some more. Let's face it, I had nothing to lose. So I had some crumpled aluminium foil...
Failed Experiment Part 1
Today's painting was an experiment that went really badly. I sketched out a composition first. A bit of sky, a field in the background and a...
Broken
It's been brewing for a while but I finally went to the shops yesterday to buy a transparent warm (orangey) red as a potential replacement for the...
He Knows, Doctor, He Knows
I'd had a couple of requests to paint a Star Trek scene and this is what I came up with. It's based on a shot near the end of The City At The Edge...
Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid
And here's today's second painting. This one really is a Western. For once it's an action scene rather than a pose. I'm going to claim that I've...
Invasion!
I'm doing two paintings today. Both are based on photos transcribed onto paper by dividing them into grids. Both have the figures masked out, the...
Tombstone
After the roaring success of Once Upon A Time In The West, I thought I'd have a go at another Western. This time it's Tombstone, the best of the...
Hotel California
After Free Bird and Comfortably Numb, I thought I'd have a go at another concert closer. Believe it or not, I was wanting to make this a realistic...
Once Upon A Time In The West – In Progress
I shared a photo of today's painting on Facebook before I filled in the silhouettes. I was told I should stop there and frame it but I carried on...
Once Upon A Time In The West
After the rubbish that I put out yesterday, I was determined to paint an ink-free watercolour again as soon as possible but to do it properly,...
The Searchers Again
I'm back to silhouette scenes from famous Westerns. This time it's back to The Searchers. John Ford really knew how to compose a scene. The rider...
Comfortably Numb
A fourth consecutive painting named after a song title. There's a clip on YouTube of David Gilmour playing a clip of Purple Rain in the middle of...
Elephant
I've been thinking for a while about painting an elephant Hazel Soan style and finally got around to it today. The elephant itself was first...
Horsehead Quarry
I thought I'd try something different. After checking out some Jean Lurssen videos on YouTube I thought I'd invest in some acrylic inks and have a...
Freebird Nebula
I'm waiting patiently for three different yellows to be delivered (raw sienna plus two two new ones - watch this space) so thought I'd have a go at...
I was feeling up for a challenge today, so I decided I'd do a painting that was a set of twelve random vignettes and that I'd ask friends on...
My Darling Clementine
Back to a favourite theme and it's another Ditko/Western mashup. It's based on an iconic Wyatt Earp pose in My Darling Clementine (1946), leaning...