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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...

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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...

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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...

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Key Man

Lots of old keys laying around the house after getting all the doors and windows replaced, so I glued a load of them together just for the hell of...

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Inside The Tuck Inn

After doing two drawings from the other side of the road opposite the Tuck Inn, I was ready to step inside and enjoy a milkshake while doing a...

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Cherry Stand In Tuck Inn Car Park

While I was drawing the Tuck Inn, I also had one eye on a stand in the car park where someone was selling cherries.  I thought it might make a good...

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Force Of Life

So here's my second painting of the day.  Again, this was all about having fun rather than creating a masterpiece.  My idea on this one was to...

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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...

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The Listener

My Dad's had a new kitchen fitted.  When I dropped in to see him, I rescued a bunch of old kitchen shelves from a skip in the drive with the...

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My Feet

And here's the last of the Bert Dodson exercise drawings that I'll be sharing.  I think all he asked us to do was to make ourselves comfortable and...

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The Allman Brothers Band

An idea came in the night to me.  It was to use inktense pencils to draw some sort of skyliney landscape but negatively, leaving trees and...

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My Left Foot

After painting The Graduate, I wanted to keep experimenting with the oil pastels.  I've still not really worked out what I'll normally be painting...

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The Graduate

It's been eleven days since my last piece of work but with the sun out and some chores out of the way, the gazebo's back up in the garden and I'm...

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A Desert Episode

In that last painting, Six Ways To Look At The Moon, I was so pleased with how the bottom left subpainting turned out that I thought I'd have a go...

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Six Ways To Look At The Moon

I'm a bit short of ideas for watercolours at the moment.  Maybe I need to wander around the village again but only if I'm prepared to put in some...

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The Insanity Of Jones

I'd got the last page of my watercolour block so thought I'd go all out on applying some texture to the painting surface without having to worry...

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Cotoneaster

It's been a bad day at the office today.  It started when I found that I'd plugged in the iPad to charge last night but not switched the socket on....

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Pale Horse Rider

OK, so I was in an Allman Betts Band mood today.  After painting Devon Allman, I thought I should really also paint Duane Betts.  But the best...

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Long Gone

I was flicking through one of my Jean Haines books last night for inspiration and decided to do something in her style today.  the subject matter...

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