It struck me, watching the football the other night, that the England interim manager Lee Carsley would make a great portrait subject. His eyes...
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Oliver Reed
I’ve had a photo of Oliver Reed as Bill Sikes in Oliver! sitting around for a while waiting to be painted and today was the day when I was finally...
Self Portrait 2025
As promised, it was a self portrait day today. I've seen people online talking about applying to Portrait Artist Of The Year, and it's got me...
The Blues Brothers Band
So here's the complete Blues Brothers band. From left to right, along the top row, then the bottom, we have: Willie "Too Big" Hall, drums ...
Phil Lesh
I do enjoy listening to the Grateful Dead while painting. And their music comes through in my artwork while they're playing. I loosen up and I...
Gary Delaney
I’ve painted quite a comedians this year. And in each case it was the face that drew me in. Comedians tend to have faces that make great portrait...
Les Dawson
After almost a week off, I'm back to painting today. After seeing how the M Graham landscape colours resulting quite restrained, brown up...
Sir Geoff Hurst
I had to order a load of paints and paper from Jackson’s the other day and was delighted to see another dot card thrown in as. Free extra. This...
Jesse Woodson James
For my first painting using the NeoLucida XL, I picked out a photo of Jesse James. I thought it would be a gentle way to make myself familiar with...
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Ok, so I've painted Devon Allman, Duane Allman, Eric Clapton, Allen Collins, Jerry Garcia, Billy Gibbons, David Gilmour, Warren Haynes. Jimi...
And, By The Way, Which One Is Pink?
With most of the paint on the Schmincke dot card used up, I thought I'd have another go at an abstract portrait rather than have them sitting...
Salvador Dali
So here's what I did with that Schmincke dot card. I quite fancied doing a portrait, so looked around for a simple portrait of a colourful...
Freebird!
This one's been coming for a while. It's a portrait of Allen Collins and Gary Rossington, two of the founder members of Lynyrd Skynyrd and I'm...
Mighty Mouse
Yesterday's painting was bad, very bad. I just had to come back and have another go at Kevin Keegan, acting on some of the lessons I'd learned...
Paul Auster
I started this one last night and finished it this morning. It's unusual for me to spread something over two days. It's because I started late...
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...
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...
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...