Personal Favourites

The Former George Inn, Newington

Next up in this series of posterised paintings is one on the green colour scheme, with layers of transparent yellow, cerulean blue and French...

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Two Kiln Oast, Newington

After a day off, I'm back to building a collection of paintings of Newington. Today I picked out a converted oast house next to the church. ...

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Mings Chinese Takeaway, Newington

Another Newington landscape tidy and once again it's using the Notanizer app. Today it's Mings Chinese Takeaway and I've painted it using the...

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A Cold Day In Newington

I was approached by our local vicar the other day. As well as being vicar in Hartlip, he's also vicar in the neighbouring village of Newington. ...

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Porto City Hall Tower

Today's painting is the second, after The Transfer, to be inspired by a photo taken by my mate Olly on his recent holiday in Portugal. Whisper it,...

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Queendown Warren: Rain On The Way

Sometimes my choice of what to paint is based on some really weird reasons. Today I looked the box of CDs I have in the studio and thought it would...

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John Henry Holliday

Yeah, June is taking a while to get started and I've gone for another easy option. It's a posterised portrait and, not only that, I've pretty well...

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The Transfer

Today's painting is based on a photo taken by an old friend Olly while (I believe) on holiday in Portugal. He said it had an Edward Hopper feel to...

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Bruce Frederickson

Next in the queue for meds at Nurse Ratched's booth is Bruce Frederickson, played by Vincent Schiavelli. He doesn't say or do much in the film but...

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Chief Bromden

I don't normally do this but I've done a third marker painting in a day. This is The Chief, played by Will Sampson. He seemed the character most...

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Doctor Zachary Smith

Sometimes I receive messages and I just have to act on them. I had the telly to myself last night and managed to find a 1960 episode of The...

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Billy The Kid

I felt like doing a portrait today. I've been doing a lot of landscapes in an attempt to impress LAOTY judges (newsflash: I've not made it to a pod...

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AnaIv In Artgraf

I only had the energy for a quick painting today, so went for an idea that's been kicking around for a few days. A line drawing using fineliners...

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Damn You All To Hell!

Now this is a landscape that's been on my to do list for a while. It's the closing scene from the original Planet Of The Apes film back in...

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The Earps

After discovering Friday's disaster I wanted to come up with a proper painting of The Earps as quickly as possible. Ā This was finished ar about...

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Towards Warren Cottage

I’ve caught up on my sleep now and can finally complete my three watercolours in three days challenge, two days late. Ā The challenge for the third...

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Ally MacLeod

A grim day today with a power cut in the morning and then no WiFi when the power came back on so I'm grabbing a sneaky coffee in Costa while I...

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The City

After yesterday's experimentation I wanted to use all the lessons from it as quickly as possible, so that's what I've been doing today. I started...

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Lewes Castle

Here's a question for you. Ā Who had a UK number one in the 1979s with D.I.V.O.R.C.E.? Ā Good guess but you're wrong. Ā It was Billy Connolly with a...

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