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,...
6. Recurring Themes/Styles
Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary, Where Did Your Garden Go?
For my second stripy gesso experiment, I thought I'd better try it out with inks. The gesso stripes this time are slanted, top right to bottom...
Waterfall Green
It's been cold outside for the last week or so and I'm going through a phase where I'm too messy to be able to work indoors so there's been a bit...
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...
The Day Ends, Springfield, Virginia
This one was inspired from a Facebook post that I saw only four hours ago of a sunset in Springfield, Virginia. It looks nothing like the original...
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...
The Old Man Of Storr
It's a double painting day today. This time I've gone for a conventional landscape for the first time in a while. It's the Old Man of Storr on the...
White, Six-Petalled Flower From Northern Thailand
This is my second attempt at a bit of free and loose Jean Haines style flower painting. It's of a white, six-petalled flower from Northern...
Sunshine Through The Brambles
I got the idea for this one yesterday afternoon, staring out of the lounge window as Bradley Walsh was asking "What has the chaser put?" Not that...
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...
Snow In The Mountains
And here's the second snowy painting of the day. Brought to you by the colours cobalt blue, quinacridone magenta, raw sienna and burnt umber. I'm...
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...
SIAS Newsletter November 2018
And here's another one. This is called SIAS Newsletter November 2018 after the email that included the stock photo this was based on. It's getting...
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...
It Started As The Helix Nebula
22 August 2018 I was still left with one empty picture frame and was wondering what to do with it. Then I had a great idea. I was going to pay a...
Jesse James
15 August 2018 Here's a companion piece to go with The Searchers. It's based on a scene from The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert...
The Searchers
1 August 2018 Looking at feedback so far, people seemed to like paintings of outer space or Westerns or paintings with people in them. So I...
Down T’Mill
16 July 2018 After Stock LinkedIn Photo With Bike Replaced With Dog got such a great reception on Facebook I thought I'd have another go at...