Category: Personal Favourites

Oliver Reed

Iā€™ve had a photo of Oliver Reed as Bill Sikes in Oliver! sitting around for a while waiting to be painted and today was the day when I was finally...

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Self Portrait 2025

As promised, it was a self portrait day today. I've seen people online talking about applying to Portrait Artist Of The Year, and it's got me...

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PeachK

I didn't want to spend long painting today as (i) I want to finish the novel I'm reading, and (ii) want to make a start sketching tomorrow's...

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Highland Cow

Somebody local who works with number two son in the kitchen at the Rose & Crown expressed an interest in buying a painting of a highland cow if...

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The Blues Brothers Band

So here's the complete Blues Brothers band. From left to right, along the top row, then the bottom, we have: Willie "Too Big" Hall, drums ...

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Tom “Bones” Malone

Continuing with filling out the horn section, we have Tom "Bones" Malone on the trombone. Tom came out OK and the collection is starting to come...

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“Blue Lou” Marini

And here's number five in the collection. Time to build a horn section, starting with "Blue Lou" Marini in saxophone. This feels like the best...

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Donald “Duck” Dunn

It's getting dark earlier but it was still light enough for me to have the energy for a second portrait today. I do need to start getting up and...

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Phil Lesh

I do enjoy listening to the Grateful Dead while painting. And their music comes through in my artwork while they're playing. I loosen up and I...

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The M2

It's another soft pastel landscape today. After yesterday's success, I thought I'd have another go while my head was still buzzing with Robert...

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Islay Beach Cottage

After reading the Robert Brindley book, I was itching to get started on a new soft pastel painting. I picked out a view of a cottage for rent on...

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Gary Delaney

Iā€™ve painted quite a comedians this year. And in each case it was the face that drew me in. Comedians tend to have faces that make great portrait...

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Untitled Basic Track

The nights are fair drawin' in and the days are getting colder. I thought it was cold enough today to dig out the oil pastels again. I've not used...

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My Approach To Posterised Paintings

This article is one that's been bubbling away in my head for a while. It came to the boil last night when I asked an AI app to critique one of my...

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Monty Panesar On Mastermind

Today's idea came from a YouTube video over breakfast the other day. It was a video of the ten most embarrassing celebrity appearances on quiz...

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Les Dawson

After almost a week off, I'm back to painting today. After seeing how the M Graham landscape colours resulting quite restrained, brown up...

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Miss Magnolia Muse

OK then, Iā€™ve built up a decent reserve of paintings for when any are sold at the Rose & Crown and need replacing. I can get back to painting...

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The Tryst

I had another go at a sky painting in soft pastels today but I'm already veering off the beaten path by going for a cloud formation that looks like...

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Sir Geoff Hurst

I had to order a load of paints and paper from Jacksonā€™s the other day and was delighted to see another dot card thrown in as. Free extra. This...

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