I'm addicted to the chess at the moment and it's come through in a couple of ways in today's painting. First there's the subject matter and the...
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Smile You Son Of A Bitch
It's a rest day in the FIDE masters and, with no chess to watch, I've been 100% focused on painting. Today's subject is Roy Scheider starring as...
I’m Thankful For My Country Home
OK then, time to put into action some of the lessons I learned from that Jean Hirons book. It's going to be a Queendown Warren landscape in soft...
Paul Merson
I started off intending to keep pressing my case for PAOTY but halfway through this one got the rejection email. It will be at least another year...
Big Ron Atkinson
Got or keep going with these posterised portraits. Twelve days to go before the PAOTY lineup is announced. Looking through my waiting list of...
Great Staple Tor
LAOTY closes to entries on Monday, so let's make the first landscape the judges see on this website a good one. It's still cold enough for oil...
Rik Mayall
Keeping going with the posterised portraits. Today's subject is the late Rik Mayall playing Squadron Commander Lord Flasheart in Blackadder Goes...
Mr. Wint And Mr. Kidd
Diamonds Are Forever was on the telly the other night and inspired me into painting a portrait of nefarious duo Mr. Wint (left, played by Bruce...
The Invitation
Will it be third time lucky? This will be another made up landscape. And the colours will again be Payne's grey, Mayan blue genuine and burnt...
Miles Davis
Back to watercolour portraits again. I'm more optimistic about my PAOTY chances than my LAOTY chances but I have to keep going at both. I saw...
The Forgotten Twelve
So here it is: my tribute to the twelve astronauts to have visited the moon before 2026 but never set foot on it. I'm calling them the forgotten...
Ronald Evans
It's been a long journey but we've finally made it to Apollo 17, at the time of writing the last manned mission to the moon. Gene Cernan was...
Fred Haise
Number eight in the collection is Fred Haise, Lunar Module Pilot in Apollo 13. The plan was for Fred to be the sixth man on the moon and to not be...
Richard Gordon Junior
Before I say anything else, the mystery has been solved. Someone on LinkedIn worked out that the twelve subjects in this collection are the twelve...
Jim Lovell
Next up is Jim Lovell, Command Module Pilot (CMP) in Apollo 8 and, more famously, Commander of Apollo 13, the famously aborted moon landing mission...
Harcourt Fenton Mudd
Today's portrait subject is Harry Mudd, an interstellar conman, okayed by Roger C. Carmel in two episodes of Star Trek TOS. I went for the trippy...
From All Of These Signs Saying “Sorry But We’re Closed”
The Good, The Bad And The Ugly was on the telly the other day. It's one long gallery of painting ideas but the shot that sprang out at me this time...
Burning Of The Midnight Lamp
Yesterday's painting took a while and left me a little drained so I was tempted to take a day off today but I have a physio class tomorrow that...
Christine McVie And Lindsey Buckingham
Time to kick off the portrait season and to start impressing any visiting PAOTY judges. Today's subjects are former Fleetwood Mac members Christine...
Foxy Lady
And now the Artist Of The Year run up starts. I need to building up my collection of watercolour portraits and pastel landscapes for PAOTY and...