It's a rest day in the FIDE masters and, with no chess to watch, I've been 100% focused on painting. Today's subject is Roy Scheider starring as...
Portraits
Got The Rain In My Face
The FIDE Candidates tournament is on at the moment and I'm already addicted after three of the fourteen rounds. So I'm watching the chess all...
Sean Lock
Today I've been painting a portrait of the late Sean Lock. It's a posterised painting using the trippy colour scheme and following my usual process...
Country Home Guitar Solo
The coloured pencils have taken a back seat for a while now, so time to give them an opportunity to do their stuff. I was watching a YouTube video...
Paul Merson
I started off intending to keep pressing my case for PAOTY but halfway through this one got the rejection email. It will be at least another year...
Big Ron Atkinson
Got or keep going with these posterised portraits. Twelve days to go before the PAOTY lineup is announced. Looking through my waiting list of...
Yeah, Life Was Just A Bet On A Race Between The Lights
Back to business and it's the business of creating posterised watercolour portraits for the benefit of any visiting PAOTY judges. Pulp Fiction was...
Rik Mayall
Keeping going with the posterised portraits. Today's subject is the late Rik Mayall playing Squadron Commander Lord Flasheart in Blackadder Goes...
Mr. Wint And Mr. Kidd
Diamonds Are Forever was on the telly the other night and inspired me into painting a portrait of nefarious duo Mr. Wint (left, played by Bruce...
Karen Of Mountbatten-Windsorius
Back to posterised watercolour portraits today. I fancied trying to reproduce the outer spacey look of Miles Davis, so hunted around for a Star...
And It Makes Me Wonder
Looks like I'm taking a break from LAOTY and PAOTY prep this week then because today I fancied giving the crystalline water colours their first...
Thomas Tuchel
When I asked ChatGPT for feedback on Miles Davis, it started raving about how that painting looked like a constellation against a starry...
Miles Davis
Back to watercolour portraits again. I'm more optimistic about my PAOTY chances than my LAOTY chances but I have to keep going at both. I saw...
The Forgotten Twelve
So here it is: my tribute to the twelve astronauts to have visited the moon before 2026 but never set foot on it. I'm calling them the forgotten...
Ronald Evans
It's been a long journey but we've finally made it to Apollo 17, at the time of writing the last manned mission to the moon. Gene Cernan was...
Ken Mattingly
The next member of the club is Ken Mattingly, CMP of Apollo 16. His crew mates were Commander John Young and LMP Charles Duke. It was John's second...
Alfred Worden
Second one today and number ten in the collection is Alfred Worden, CMP of Apollo 15. David Scott was commander of this mission and James Irwin the...
Stuart Roosa
After a day off while waiting for some new markers to arrive, it's back to work. This is Stuart Roosa, CMP of Apollo 14. He stayed in orbit while...
Fred Haise
Number eight in the collection is Fred Haise, Lunar Module Pilot in Apollo 13. The plan was for Fred to be the sixth man on the moon and to not be...
Jack Swigert
Number 7 in the collection is Jack Swigert. Command Module Pilot in the ill fated but miraculous Apollo13. Jack's second colour is a grey, cool...