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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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Schilthorn

21 May 2018 After the success with mountains a couple of days before (Susten Pass) I thought I had to have another go at a mountain scene from that...

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Pathside Sheep

So we finally get on to watercolour.  I've always been hopeless at drawing or painting, so I don't know why it was that I went on the watercolour...

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Virgin On The Ridiculous

Flushed with success I did another piece of jig-art a few years later.  Maybe 1997ish. This time I went for 1500-piece puzzles.  One was The...

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It’s A Jungle Out There!

First up and it's not a watercolour.  I call it jig-art. I did this back in the early to mid 90s.  It struck me one day that all jigsaws the same...

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