Only time for one portrait today after that book review and it's my first ever go at Doctor McCoy, played by DeForest Kelley. It's him but it's...
All Posterised Paintings
Kirk
Number 4 in the collection is Captain Kirk, played by William Shatner. Bill joins Gregg Allman, Warren Haynes, Big Sam Allardyce and me in the...
Rand
I realised last night that the nine in this collection will comprise three each of red shirts, blue shirts and green shirts. So that makes my...
Sulu
Second in the collection is Mr Sulu, played by George Takei. It looks like the first layer of colour is yellow but it's actually lime green. ...
Spock
These are tricky times. We're having one of our bathrooms done up over the next week or two and this means I'm not able to spend as much time in...
Robbie Williams
Someone put up a post on LinkedIn today about Robbie Williams and I realised immediately that he'd make a great portrait subject and am kicking...
Dave Best
Another portrait today for the benefit of those lovely PAOTY judges. Today's subject is Dave Best from The Royle Family, played by the great comedy...
What Are Little Girls Made Of?
Today's subject matter is a still from Star Trek TOS. It's a still from What Are Little Girls Made, featuring Sherry Jackson and Ted Cassidy as the...
The Strangest Man
I've been reading The Strangest Man by Graham Farmelo, the biography of mathematical physicist Paul Dirac, someone I've painted before. Looking at...
Alan Davies
Right, time to get down to some proper work and to produce some posterised paintings that will impress the Portrait Artist Of The Year judges when...
The Singular Death Of Morton
Still too many things going on at the moment for me to have much time to paint but I did have the time today to give the Inktense pencils a...
Keeping His Promise
I've not done much painting this year. It's partly due to having too many other distractions and partly due to the days still feeling too short....
Michael Portillo
I had quite a long afternoon free today so thought I'd have a go at a posterised watercolour portrait. Today's subject is faction icon and former...
Slash
Today I have been mostly painting Slash. This is a posterised painting using the blue colour scheme, as described here, so the colour are cerulean...
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...
Highland Cow
Somebody local who works with number two son in the kitchen at the Rose & Crown expressed an interest in buying a painting of a highland cow if...
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 ...
Elwood Blues
And finally here's Elwood Blues, played by Dan Aykroyd. Again, black and white and simple shapes. But, unlike with Jake, I've wasted the...
“Joliet” Jake Blues
OK, the secret's out. After finding Blues Brothers on some satellite channel late at night twice last week, I had to get the band back together....