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...
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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...
InnaBG
I'm back on the Artrafs today, aware of my promise from last time to hold back on the blue and not make the darks too dark. So here goes. It's a...
Fame
I was feeling watercoloured out today and in the mood for a different medium, so went for the oil pastels. I wanted to draw a portrait and was...
Uranus
After a bit of a break, I'm back on the planets again. Today it's Uranus. All eight planets revolve around the sun in roughly the same plane and...
Thea 5
Today's been quite a short day but, with England playing cricket tomorrow, I didn't want to take what would be two days off, so I went for a quick...
John Lydon
I wasn’t planning on doing a watercolour today but I found a photo of John Lydon that was just begging to be painted in Liz Chaderton style. In...
B. B. King
Today's not a day for watercolours. I tend to do watercolours in bursts of 2-4 successive days and with yesterday being a charcoal day and...
The Face Of Mars
Another day, another planet. My latest idea for planet paintings (to go with the ideas of random surrealness and Roman gods) is to think about...
Derek Trucks
I've painted a lot of guitarists over years in various different media but until now I've not gotten around to my favourite. My favourite living...
The Dads Army Collection
And here it is completed: The Dads Army Collection. From left to right, top to bottom: – Captain Mainwaring – Wilson – Jonesy – Godfrey and Pike –...
Captain George Mainwaring
And finally here's the last portrait in the collection, Captain George Mainwaring, played by Arthur Lowe. Along with Walker, one of my two...
ARP Warden William Hodges
Up nice and early today and, with the chess not needing too much work today, I think I have time for two portraits. First up is Hodges, played by...
Lance Corporal Jack Jones
Only time for one more portrait today and it's Lance Corporal Jack Jones, played by Clive Dunn. I picked out this portrait because of all...
Maurice Yeatman And The Reverend Timothy Farthing
Next up it's the verger and the vicar, played by Edward Sinclair and Frank Williams respectively. Maybe not who people were expecting but two much...
LumenF
I didn't have much time today but still wanted to do some painting so went for a bit of figure drawing with the inktense pencils. It's LumenF's...
Disapproval From Mount Rushmore
Another watercolour today. I wanted to have another go with the desert supergranulators supplemented with cool blues after they worked out so well...