Time for another set of marker portraits. I've done chess, physics and westerns, so it's time to start on another passion: music. This is Geddy...
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The Frankenstein-Dracula Variation
After reading Painting By Design by Charles Reid, I felt ready to attempt my first watercolour portrait. It started off as the world chess...
The Happiest Days Of Our Lives
Today's painting is dedicated to the recently departed Sir Alan Parker, who directed (as well as many other films) The Wall, a film featuring all...
Stockbury Church
Time for a new experience. To get some practice in (just in case I make it on to Landscape Artist Of The Year as a wildcard) I thought I'd better...
Lancashire Sunset
Today's painting was inspired by a photo by a guy called Brandon Lee Keefe of a sunset from St Peter's Church in Hersham. I say inspired rather...
(Two Of) The Hateful Eight
I thought it was about time I went back to my most popular series of paintings, the abstractified Westerns. Today, I found a still from The...
The Glamour Of The Snow
I thought a bit of watercolour painting was overdue, so I've been out there this morning running off this little number. The thunder started as I...
Charles Bronson
I was late out of bed this morning and it looked a bit too hot outside so I'm back to drawing with markers this morning. I'm back to the...
James Coburn
Back to the markers and it's time to start on a new series of portraits. I've done a series of chess players and a series of quantum physicists....
My Sunset’s On Fire
See, this is what happens when I go in without a real plan. After all that experimenting with triads, I wanted to have a go at a painting using...
2020 FIDE Candidates Tournament – The Collection
And here's the collection. This is the format in which I want to get them all framed. and that may mean getting a specialist framer to at least...
Fabiano Caruana
And here it is, the last one in the collection. It's world number two Fabiano Caruana. I thought I'd go for a bright green background as that...
DNA
And here's the second of the day. This is all out abstract. I cracklepasted a board a couple of days ago (with watercolour ground applied to the...
Stormy Abstract
And here's my second effort of the day. Another with a specially prepared crackle paste surface. This time, the special guest in the surface was...
Now What Are You Barking At?
And here's my latest Jane Betteridge inspired painting on an unusual surface. It's my first go using crackle paste. I bought an acrylic canvas...
Mount Rushmore
Now this is more like it! A painting on an experimental surface that worked. The faces were all torn out of the Mail On Sunday dated 11 August...
Last Days Of Summer
Another quite traditional looking painting today. I was watching a YouTube video this morning where Gordon MacKenzie was showing how to paint...
Broken
It's been brewing for a while but I finally went to the shops yesterday to buy a transparent warm (orangey) red as a potential replacement for the...
Denali National Park
I thought it was about time I did something more conventional. Nothing abstract, no acrylic inks, no salt. Just a plain simple landscape. And I...
Sparkly Tree
After four paintings in a row based on the tried and trusted abstract silhouette style, I thought it was time for something different. I was in...