Sorry everybody. I screwed up today. Rather than doing a fourth portrait in a row I should have switched back to painting planets. I need to...
Category: Other Subject Matter
John Lydon
I wasn’t planning on doing a watercolour today but I found a photo of John Lydon that was just begging to be painted in Liz Chaderton style. In...
B. B. King
Today's not a day for watercolours. I tend to do watercolours in bursts of 2-4 successive days and with yesterday being a charcoal day and...
Donald Trump
I took a break from the planets today. A charcoal painting is long overdue and I thought I'd have a go at a charcoal portrait for the first time....
Mercury
Today's planet is Mercury, sharing its name with the messenger of the Roman gods and therefore deserving of a pair or wings. For the three colours...
The Face Of Mars
Another day, another planet. My latest idea for planet paintings (to go with the ideas of random surrealness and Roman gods) is to think about...
Susan
Monday's housework day and BBC2 quiz night so tends not to be a proper painting day. But after a couple of days off I thought I'd better have a go...
Neptune
This is the second in my series of paintings of the planets and today it's Neptune. There was a question on University Challenge the other week...
Jupiter And Io
Seventeen days since my last watercolour and I'm finally back. The idea for this one popped into my head while out on my walk yesterday. I've no...
Eric Clapton, 1970
I've had loads of chores to do Sunday and Monday, leaving only a couple sessions available for painting. So I went for a coloured pencil portrait...
Lumen F In Artgraf
The day's not over and I have gone for one more painting! While my mind was still in the zone I thought I'd do that second Artgraf painting, this...
Luana
The builders have finished work today and I have access to the studio again. After a break of a couple of weeks, I was expecting my first couple...
Derwent Art Prize 2024
I've no idea how things will turn out but I've entered these two bad boys for the Derwent Art Prize 2024. Entries have to be in pencil but that...
An FIA No More
Some news that I should probably put up here so that people don't get the wrong idea. I've just resigned my membership of the Institute and...
Derek Trucks
I've painted a lot of guitarists over years in various different media but until now I've not gotten around to my favourite. My favourite living...
Adhira In Greens And Reds
I made a late start today and decided to go for the inktense pencils as I can choose a model pose pretty quickly and hit the ground running. Today...
The Dads Army Collection
And here it is completed: The Dads Army Collection. From left to right, top to bottom: – Captain Mainwaring – Wilson – Jonesy – Godfrey and Pike –...
Captain George Mainwaring
And finally here's the last portrait in the collection, Captain George Mainwaring, played by Arthur Lowe. Along with Walker, one of my two...
Sergeant Arthur Wilson II
I've had a second go at Wilson today. After painting Wilson and Walker the first time around I think my portraitist skills (or was it just my...
Private James Frazer
Today's addition to the set is Frazer, played by John Laurie, another actor born in the 19th century. After I found a picture of hin in his...