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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The One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest Collection
And here's the full collection. Wow! This is exactly what I wanted and more. The monotone paintings all look incomplete and yet when put...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The Earps
After discovering Friday's disaster I wanted to come up with a proper painting of The Earps as quickly as possible. This was finished ar about...
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. The challenge for the third...
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...
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...
Lewes Castle
Here's a question for you. Who had a UK number one in the 1979s with D.I.V.O.R.C.E.? Good guess but you're wrong. It was Billy Connolly with a...
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...
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...
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. To see the price, click here.
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...
Major The Hon. John Wickham Gascoyne Beresford Steed
This one took me a couple of days but it was worth it. I picked out John Steed as played by the late Patrick MacNee in The Avengers and The New...
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...
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...