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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid

And here's today's second painting.  This one really is a Western.  For once it's an action scene rather than a pose.  I'm going to claim that I've...

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Tombstone

After the roaring success of Once Upon A Time In The West, I thought I'd have a go at another Western.  This time it's Tombstone, the best of the...

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Once Upon A Time In The West

After the rubbish that I put out yesterday, I was determined to paint an ink-free watercolour again as soon as possible but to do it properly,...

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Waterfall Green

It's been cold outside for the last week or so and I'm going through a phase where I'm too messy to be able to work indoors so there's been a bit...

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Winter Roots

And for my second painting today, I thought I'd just throw everything on the paper and see what came out.  Here's what I ended up with. I started...

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Whoa!

So, after the last painting was a quinacridone magenta free zone, I had to follow it up quickly with another painting. Something experimental,...

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Horsehead Quarry

I thought I'd try something different. After checking out some Jean Lurssen videos on YouTube I thought I'd invest in some acrylic inks and have a...

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Jesse James

15 August 2018 Here's a companion piece to go with The Searchers.  It's based on a scene from The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert...

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The Searchers

1 August 2018 Looking at feedback so far, people seemed to like paintings of outer space or Westerns or paintings with people in them.  So I...

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Random Nebula

2 July 2018 Oh, this was a really good one.  It started out based on one particular nebula (I can't remember which one - sorry) but ended up...

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