The idea for this one came to me last night. I was googling around, looking at reviews of some forthcoming Star Trek episodes and found this still...
Westerns
When I’m Paid I Always See The job Through
I can't do too many watercolours in a row without pining for a change of media so I was in the coloured pencils today, doing a portrait of Angel...
The Good, The Bad And The Ugly: The Collection
And here they are, all together. As I expected, their positives as a set are greater than the sum of their individual positives. They're up for...
Il Brutto
So here's part 3 of 3 and that's the collection complete. Tuco followed the same methodology as the previous two paintings so, what I did (and I'm...
Il Cattivo
Number two in my The Good, The Bad And The Ugly collection is Angel Eyes, the bad one, played by Lee Van Cleef. In allocating supergranulating...
Il Buono
It's been more than a year since I painted a scene from a Western and I'm returning to that subject big time with a set of three paintings based on...
Once Upon A Time In The West Again
Time for a watercolour again and today was looking like a good day to be painting in the garden. After yesterday's success with a Western and the...
She Wore A Yellow Ribbon
After such a miserable effort yesterday, I had to go back to the oil pastels today. With the watercolours it's still touch and go whether I can...
El Bandito
Today's painting started off from a reference photo of Lee Van Cleef in The Good, The Bad And The Ugly but I never could get any sort of likeness...
The Far Country
I was feeling keen to start putting some of these Bridget Woods lessons into practice. Part of the lesson was to put together the monotone...
Recognition!
Wow! Casey Affleck just shared one of my works on Instagram and he already has over 1500 likes. If you're here after seeing me on Casey's...
High Noon
With not many ideas about what to paint and not wanting to keep doing abstract after abstract, I thought I'd have a go at another famous Western....
The Trio
This one has been brewing for a month or so and I've now got it out of my system after buying some decent paper for pencil drawing (and possibly...
(Two Of) The Hateful Eight
I thought it was about time I went back to my most popular series of paintings, the abstractified Westerns. Today, I found a still from The...
The Magnificent Seven Collection, Framed
All framed now and ready to go in the post. Looking good, I must say. They've been given to my given to my father as a combined fathers day/77th...
Eli Wallach
Today on Portrait Artist Of The Week It was Clare Balding. I didn’t rate my chances of doing Clare justice so I've instead headed back to The...
And Introducing Horst Buchholz
And here's the last one in the set. It's Horst Buchholz as Chico. I'm not sure he's instantly recognisable unless you're looking at all seven...
Yul Brynner
One more member of the Magnificent Seven. It's Yul Brynner as Chris Adams. I would say he's the coolest of the seven but I think Britt (James...
Steve McQueen
Back to the Magnificent Seven and it's Steve McQueen as Vin Tanner. I really struggled to get. a likeness, so thought I'd have some fun with...
Robert Vaughn
I take it back. It's Robert Vaughn, not Steve McQueen that's hardest to draw. I did a lot of drawing and rubbing out before ending with this...