Category: Sold!

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...

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Early Twentieth Century Hartlip

Time to work on building up a reserve of paintings ready to display at the Rose & Crown when others are sold. For today's subject I picked out...

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In From The Storm

The news came through last night that two of my paintings that were on display at at the Rose & Crown have been sold. So I needed to find a...

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Camp Of The Dog

No book reviews or swatches today. It's time to start trying out all these new art supplies, starting with the crystalline watercolour. For subject...

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Station Road, Newington

And here's the last of my series of nine posterised paintings of Newington. It's based on a really old photo of Station Road, probably predating...

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High Street, Newington, 1920s

I’m still building up this series of posterised paintings of Newington. Today I painted a scene on the A2 from the 1920s. The colour scheme is the...

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A Cold Day In Newington

I was approached by our local vicar the other day. As well as being vicar in Hartlip, he's also vicar in the neighbouring village of Newington. ...

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Queendown Warren: Rain On The Way

Sometimes my choice of what to paint is based on some really weird reasons. Today I looked the box of CDs I have in the studio and thought it would...

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Hartlip War Memorial

It's been a while since I last went on a dash & splash so I thought I'd give it a go today. How this works is that I head outside and do some...

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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...

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Towards Warren Cottage

I’ve caught up on my sleep now and can finally complete my three watercolours in three days challenge, two days late. Ā The challenge for the third...

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Lewes Castle

Here's a question for you. Ā Who had a UK number one in the 1979s with D.I.V.O.R.C.E.? Ā Good guess but you're wrong. Ā It was Billy Connolly with a...

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Out On Queendown Warren

Ā  A tale of two paintings today. Ā It wasn’t supposed to come out like this but I've ended up with one in the background and one on the foreground....

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New Court In Fineliner And Artgraf

I was hunting around on YouTube the other day for demonstrations of people using Artgraf blocks. Ā What I really wanted to see was people drawing...

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Lula’s Spot

I've done another painting ofĀ Queendown Warren today. Ā This isa bench that I walk past pretty well every day. Ā If it's been raining a lot, I go for...

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Free Horse Manure

I took my phone out with me today on my daily four mile walk through Queendown Warren, hoping to find some good subject matter after feeling a jot...

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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 –...

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