Since Pigpen went so well, I’ve been wondering whether I could fit a triple triple glazed portrait into the four hours that artists are allowed in...
Category: Other Subject Matter
Saturn
I really do need to finish my collection of planet paintings at some point so I'm back on the case today with Saturn. For a while my plan had been...
MikaM, Watching Ross Kemp’s Bridge Of Lies
After yesterday's sterling efforts, I thought I'd take it easy today and do an Inktense pencil figure drawing. It's been a long eleven weeks since...
Ron “Pigpen” McKernan
My year end painting hiatus is over and I’m back in the studio. After thing breaks I tend to work my way back in slowly with low pressure works...
Portrait Artist Of The Year 2024 Entry
I've entered for Portrait Artist Of The Year again but this year I'm going for it as a watercolourist. I've included these three paintings in my...
The 2023 Artistic Actuary Video
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...
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...