I'm back on the planets again and today it's Venus. It took me a long time to come up with an idea about how to make a painting of Venus a bit...
Category: Space
Captain James Tiberius Kirk
Today I had a go at the second in The Corbomite Manouver collection. Today it's Captain Kirk, painted using the Shire supergranulators, befitting...
Chief Engineer Montgomery Scott
Sometimes great ideas come into my head on my daily walks. Today was one of those days. Earlier this year I put together The Good The Bad and the...
Uranus
After a bit of a break, I'm back on the planets again. Today it's Uranus. All eight planets revolve around the sun in roughly the same plane and...
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...
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...
William Shatner
It's been a long time since my last post but I've finally got to a day with no Christmas shopping, university pickups or doctor/dentist/optician...
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...
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...
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...
Random Nebula
2 July 2018 Oh, this was a really good one. It started out based on one particular nebula (I can't remember which one - sorry) but ended up...