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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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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...

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Two Trees, Hartlip House

After a flop with the watercolours, I'm back to the oil pastels again, where everything always seems to go well and I can regain some confidence. ...

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Animal Biscuit Valley, New Zealand

I'm still on the oil pastels but it's a landscape in New Zealand today.  Well kind of.  I've been a bit smart today and left out some rocks that...

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Annual Self Portrait 2022

It's time for the annual self portrait and after two years of inktense pencils, this year's portrait is in oil pastels.  I have a long way to go...

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Torres Del Paine National Park

Enough with the naked women, I'm back onto landscapes.  This is three artworks in successive days, which is pretty unusual for me. The subject...

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Sarah Ann

After a few weeks away following the loss of my father, I'm back to the artwork.  And I'm glad I am.  It was great to spend an hour and a half away...

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Rhus’ Back

After all that fun with the markers, I thought I really should get back to doing some proper painting with the inktense pencils.  Today I'm back to...

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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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Doctor Richard Maunder

Second up in the Christ's Maths Fellows 1982-86 collection is Richard Maunder.  This guy was an absolute legend.  He was a pure mathematician, into...

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Number Two

Remember Hartlip Church In The Snow from a month or so ago?  I gave it to Barbara next door as an 80th birthday present.  Well, her daughter pulled...

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Frank’s Wood, Leith Hill, Surrey

It's getting cold and wet outside so the number of watercolour and oil paintings that I'll be doing the rest of this year is numbered.  Today I...

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The Bond Villains Collection

And here's the full set in all its glory.  Rosa Klebb missed out to Hugo Drax in the final cut, as already revealed.  And the second Blofeld keeps...

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Oddjob

Ah, Oddjob.  Played by Harold Sakata in Goldfinger, he was always going to be in this collection once I'd moved on to henchmen. Once again, I...

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Doctor Julius No

Now that I've convinced myself these are my takes on Bond villains and not just portraits of the actors that played them, I feel liberated and am...

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Sastrugi

There's a long story behind this one.  I didn't have much time to paint today but thought I'd been away from the brushes for too long so that I'd...

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Hartlip Church In The Snow

A month or so ago, someone from the village church was asking about the possibility of me painting something they could use for the church's...

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Hartlip Church In The Sun

It's the 29th of August already!  The local church has another tea and cake afternoon on 12th September and I promised them I'd have another...

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