Category: Posterised Style

Three Famous Gunslingers

<Edit: The day after I painted and posted this one I found that I'd screwed up.  The guy on the right is Frank James, not Virgil Earp.  That...

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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...

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Joe Walsh

Today's painting is a portrait of Joe Walsh of The Eagles, someone who in his heyday was probably even more fun at parties than Frank Bough....

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Frank Bough

Of all the celebrities ever to have been disgraced after being caught in a tabloid sting, Frank Bough is the most likely to raise a smile and the...

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Brian Clough’s Finger

I thought I'd have a go at painting Brian Clough today.  It was always going to happen at some point.  I had a choice between source photos and...

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Ardbeg Distillery

I'm back to painting distilleries.  Today it's the Ardbeg Distillery on the island of Islay.  I've deviated a bit from my normal rule here as I...

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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...

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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.

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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...

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The Buttery, Christ’s College

Today I'm back to painting after a few days off getting my feet under the table in a correspondence chess tournament.  And I'm back with another of...

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Hale And Pace

Today I've been painting Hale and Pace, a comedy double act from the 1980s and 90s.  Sometimes you see a photo and you just have to turn it into a...

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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...

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Inside New Court, Christ’s College

I needed to paint something other than portraits and, while looking around my Cambridge college's website, hit upon the idea of painting the inside...

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Three-One!

Something about that Joe Jordan painting yesterday put me in a nostalgic mood and wanting to keep going back to the 1978 World Cup.  And the...

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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...

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Paul With Markers

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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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...

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Tres Hombres

I wanted to have another go at painting ZZ Top after failing so badly a couple of days ago.  This time, though, it would be in watercolour and...

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