Category: Personal Favourites

A Clockwork Orange

Another watercolour today.  This is based on a publicity shot for A Clockwork Orange, a famous 1971 Stanley Kubrick film.  With the white face and...

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Cornelius

Ok so, as I said last time, I asked the spreadsheet on the iPad what to paint next it told me to paint a portrait using the Shire supergranulators...

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The Avengers 1965-67

And here they are together, Steed and Mrs Peel.  They go quite brilliantly together and are up for sale as a pair.

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Mrs Emma Peel

It was always going to happen.  Steed needed a partner.  I decided to go for Mrs Peel, a character that was sure to make a great painting. After...

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Fleabag

A lot of my recent watercolour portraits seem to have been painted from a distance, including bodies, hands and things like that.  I wanted to go...

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Joe Jordan

Today I have been mostly painting a portrait of Joe Jordan.  As he's wearing a Scotland shirt it seemed appropriate to paint this one with three...

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Paul With Markers

I've been out most of the day but came back to see some Facebook banter from old Christ's boy Paul wondering whether he could get me to send him...

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Gregg Allman In Coloured Pencil

Time for something new.  This has been brewing away in my mind for a couple of weeks and I finally decided to give it a go.  It's my first ever...

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Gary Moore

After managing to capture the face that Warren Haynes pulls when he hits a high note, I thought I'd thought I'd try a repeat performance by...

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Rush

A new month and new boundaries to push, new ideas to explore.  I've been having all this fun with the Artist Assist App but have only so far used...

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Warren Haynes In Watercolour

The closing date for Portrait Artist Of The Year is on 5 February, ten days away.  I've already submitted my entry but this is the time of her when...

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John Lydon In Oil Pastel

It was a tough call over who to paint today.  ChatGPT wasn't able to come up with any celebrities I'd ever heard of whose birthday it was today....

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Nevermore

Today would have been Edgar Allen Poe's 215th birthday.  I know this because I asked ChatGPT to name me a random celebrity born in January 19th....

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The Dragons Den Collection

And here it is: the complete collection of dragons. As expected, the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.  These look great and the...

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Aaaaagggggghhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!

Don't tell me that you didn't see this one coming.  On this week's Dragons Den there will be a sixth dragon and six is a much better number for a...

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Are You On TikTok?

And here's the fifth dragon in the den, Steven Bartlett.  He's been given the flesh colour scheme, with the layers being putty, then soft peach,...

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Touker Time!

Today's dragon is Touker Suleyman, a big favourite of mine. He's been given the grey colour scheme with cold grey 1, cold grey 4 and black.  The...

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