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...
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...
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...
Moon, Turn The Tides…Gently Gently Away
I'm currently reading How To Make A Watercolour Paint Itself by Nita Engle and thought I'd try out some of her ideas today with a stormy sea...
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...
Castles Made Of Sand
This is my second attempt at a painting with a complementary colour scheme. The two colours are Winsor orange and French ultramarine. In Quiller...
Still Raining, Still Dreaming
Having learned my lessons, here's my second attempt of the day. There are only three colours in the whole painting. Payne's grey and light red...
Logical Right Eye
And so straight on to the right eye. The same techniques as I used for the left eye. Whereas with watercolours and to a lesser extent inktense...
Artistic Left Eye
It seems the best way to learn how to use oil pastels is to watch videos on YouTube. Today I watched Scrooge The Profit describing the rule of...
Six Ways To Look At The Moon
I'm a bit short of ideas for watercolours at the moment. Maybe I need to wander around the village again but only if I'm prepared to put in some...
Balanced Rock, Big Bend National Park, Texas
I was feeling a bit short of ideas so I googled for precarious rocks again and found this one in Texas. It looks a cracker with its interesting sky...
Kjeragbolten
Yesterday's paintings were bad. To help me find some form, I thought I'd look for some precarious rocks. I managed to find Kjeragbolten, which is...
Gabrielle
More inktense figure drawing as promised. This is a new model for me: Gabrielle. For colours today, I used bark, baked earth, leaf green,...
Secret Door Into Hartlip Church
The Euros start today, so my paintings might slow right down over the next few weeks unless I can start getting out of bed earlier. There's only...
Long Gone
I was flicking through one of my Jean Haines books last night for inspiration and decided to do something in her style today. the subject matter...
Margaret
Inktense pencils are just too much fun to draw with, so here's another. It's a debut for Margaret. I've cropped her so I get no hands or feet. ...
Glean a’Chroin
I felt inspired by one of the subpaintings in my last post (The Joy Of Six). It was the one in the bottom right. Winsor Orange and Indigo are like...
Michael, Kneeling
There really needs to be a Sky Naked Figure Drawing Of The Year program. I'm sure I could make a decent crack of it. Inktense pencils are the...
Place Meadow, Hartlip
It's another Hartlip painting and, just like the last one, it features a house and is named after the house but the centre of interest in terms of...