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...
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...
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...
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...
Kingsferry Bridge Under Three Different Skies
It's a watercolour landscape day today. I've been saving up some photos with amazing looking skies that have been posted on Facebook by a couple...
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....
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....
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...
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...
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,...
Meanwhile Deborah Meaden Has Some Questions About The Company’s Green Credentials
It was only a matter of time before I had a go at three layer portraits with computer assistance using markers. I've identified six triplets of...
Fire
Today it's a portrait of Jimi Hendrix. You can tell that I've used the Artist Assist App again just by looking at this one. I was planning to do...
MikaM, Watching Ross Kemp’s Bridge Of Lies
After yesterday's sterling efforts, I thought I'd take it easy today and do an Inktense pencil figure drawing. It's been a long eleven weeks since...
Ron “Pigpen” McKernan
My year end painting hiatus is over and I’m back in the studio. After thing breaks I tend to work my way back in slowly with low pressure works...
The Shard
It feels as if the big year end winddown has started. This will be my final painting of the year but probably not my final post. It's based on a...
Tracey
This is Tracey, a friend of the family. She dabbles in painting herself and gave us. Painting of our dog Ruby last Christmas and it's been at the...
Chris Robinson
This is Chris Robinson, vocalist and occasional harmonica or guitar player in The Chris Robinson Brotherhood and The Black Crowes and master of dad...
Roy Wood
With one page left in my rough watercolourpaper block and that page starting to come away at the edges, I wanted to do another watercolour today...
Joe Strummer
I'm back from the Upchurch art exhibition now and my studio's all back to normal. I only sold the one painting, The Happiest Days Of Our Lives...