I saw the other day that the Buckingham Nicks album had been rereleased. This is the album that Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks recorded...
Personal Favourites
See The Winter, Taste The Snow, Feel The Cold, Hear The Wind, Smell The Reindeer
And here they are together: See The Winter, Taste The Snow, Feel The Cold and Hear The Wind, Smell The Reindeer. I couldn't decide whether to have...
Hear The Wind, Smell The Reindeer
And here's the other half of the diptych. The drawings on the back are Hear The Wind and Smell The Reindeer. This one was painted in parallel...
See The Winter, Taste The Snow, Feel The Cold
And here we are at stage 2 of the big project. After I Am The Eye In The Sky was such a big success almost five years ago on a glass fridge shelf...
Taste The Snow
Next up in the five senses is taste. Once again, this is in charcoal, almost entirely with the pencils but with a likely bit of XL block in...
Hear The Wind
September's starting off with a big project that will take at least a week to complete, maybe two. It's going to start with five charcoal drawings...
Blobby Blobby Blobby
I've been told I need to do some more fish paintings. And that fish in the posterised trippy scheme work better than fish in the posterised tundra...
AnaIv In Charcoal
After reading Anthony Ryder's book, I was keen to put some of his ideas into practice as soon as possible, so I've been doing some figure drawing...
Sweet Angel
Number one son was asking whether I’d ever painted a fish. I think he was hoping to be able to give a fish painting as a present for two of his...
Alex
Let this be a warning to all of you out there. Fall asleep on my sofa and you're fair game for a portrait. This is my oldest son, Alex. He'd had a...
Telegraph Road Got So Deep And So Wide
Still quite hot today but after Tuesday's painting got a lot of praise on LinkedIn, I wanted to keep going, so today I've been sweating it out over...
Bob Weir
July has been too hot for painting. I've made it home from my morning walks and not had the energy to do anything other than read a book. From...
The Black Hills
I've had twelve paintings up on the wall of the restaurant at the Rose & Crown for a while now. Occasionally the odd one is sold but the owners...
The Wrong Kind Of Snow
After all that fun yesterday with the tundra supergranulators, I was ready to give them another go today, with another snowy mountain scene but one...
Just Believe In Me Baby And I’ll Take You Away
After Galen went so well earlier this month, I thought I'd have another go with the Artgraf blocks. This time, though, it's a figure painting. The...
People Driving Home From The Factories
Today was a good day for a long painting after getting out really early to go for my walk before the temperature got too high. And when things did...
Planet Of The Apes (TV Series) Series
These three look pretty good together. We have: Galen, in Artgraf Urko in crystalline watercolour Doctor Zaius in watercolour All...
Doctor Zaius
It was always going to happen. Today's subject is Doctor Zaius from the Planet Of The Apes TV series, played by Booth Colman. After painting Galen...
Urko
A late start today, not been for my walk yet, thinking ahead to the England game and a bit obsessive about not wanting a day away from reading...
Walking Thirty Miles With A Sack On His Back
Today was a for landscapes and a day for soft pastels, both of which have been waiting for some action for a while. The subject matter is one of...