Right. That's enough of the Inktense pencils. I need to get back to watercolour portraits to impress any passing Portrait Of The Year Judges. I...
Category: Posterised Style
ZZ Top
Today's was a bit of flop. I wanted to have another go at a three layer Inktense pencil band portrait and decided to have a go at ZZ Top. I...
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...
Amy Winehouse
I heard some of the late Amy Winehouse's music the other day. I'm guessing it must have been a question on either Only Connect or University...
Nurse Mildred Ratched
This is Nurse Ratched, famously played by Louise Fletcher in One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest in a performance that won her the Best Actress Oscar...
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...
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,...
Reyt Oop My Street
The next dragon on the seat is Sara Davies. For a first layer I used bright orange, then henna, then cool grey 5. I was looking for an...
Touker Time!
Today's dragon is Touker Suleyman, a big favourite of mine. He's been given the grey colour scheme with cold grey 1, cold grey 4 and black. The...
And That’s Why I’m Going To Make You An Offer
Next up is Peter Jones. I went for a blue colour scheme to match his whistle: blue pearl, then sky blue, then indigo blue. The sky blue died...
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...
Albert King
Today's painting is a long overdue subject and a less overdue experiment. The subject is guitarist Albert King. I've been making my way through...
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...
Ross Kemp: Go With Your Gut
Since Pigpen went so well, I’ve been wondering whether I could fit a triple triple glazed portrait into the four hours that artists are allowed in...
Saturn
I really do need to finish my collection of planet paintings at some point so I'm back on the case today with Saturn. For a while my plan had been...
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...
Glazed Balls
My year end painting hiatus is still on but swatching doesn't count as painting in my book and there's an experiment that I've been meaning to try...