It's that time of year again. And today I was delighted to receive this set of 125 Sennelier oil pastels, a big numerical upgrade on my existing...
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The Duchess
Today's subject is The Duchess, vocalist in the band Space Elevator. I picked a source photo in which she was wearing a stripy top as these tend...
Little Wing
Just a portrait of a giraffe today, albeit one with a bird attached to its neck. This one was inspired by a holiday photo in Zimbabwe by Derek, an...
Telegraph Road Got So Deep And So Wide
Still quite hot today but after Tuesday's painting got a lot of praise on LinkedIn, I wanted to keep going, so today I've been sweating it out over...
Bob Weir
July has been too hot for painting. I've made it home from my morning walks and not had the energy to do anything other than read a book. From...
A Trip To The Tate Modern
It's still too hot for me to be painting so I thought I'd keep the blog ticking over with a report on my trip to the Tate Modern yesterday. The...
Recognition II
Gary Delaney has spotted his portrait and has some nice things to say.
One Rainy Wish
July is looking like a slow month. There's just too much sun at the moment; I get back from my morning walk and I'm to trashed to paint. This is...
The Black Hills
I've had twelve paintings up on the wall of the restaurant at the Rose & Crown for a while now. Occasionally the odd one is sold but the owners...
Ned’s Ghost
I was saddened to hear yesterday about the death of Wayne Larkins, an aggressive English batsman from the 1970s and 1980s. If he'd been playing in...
Hedy Lamarr
Today's painting is a portrait of the actress Hedy Lamarr. I saw a photo of her and the highlights and shadows were just screaming out to be...
The Wrong Kind Of Snow
After all that fun yesterday with the tundra supergranulators, I was ready to give them another go today, with another snowy mountain scene but one...
Built A Cabin And A Winter Store
In an attempt to tick off another line from Telegraph Road, I was Googling cabins in Greenland and came across a photo of a couple of cabins (or...
You Can Hear Them Singing Out Their Telegraph Code
It's a landscape with the soft pastels today, and it's just the sort of landscape I enjoy painting with this medium. There's lots of sky, a big...
New! Random Slideshows
I was in one of those moods today and I ended up spending a few hours creating some pages on the website where people can see random slideshows...
Let Not The Sun
After finishing the Carrie McKenzie book, I thought I'd better have a go at a landscape using the crystalline watercolour. I picked a view along...
The Art Of Brusho, Carrie McKenzie – Book Review
Let's do a book review before kicking back and enjoying Saturday evening. I read this one yesterday. It's a 103 page paperback, quite short by...
Just Believe In Me Baby And I’ll Take You Away
After Galen went so well earlier this month, I thought I'd have another go with the Artgraf blocks. This time, though, it's a figure painting. The...
He Made A Home In The Wilderness
It's back to landscapes and to soft pastels today. This is neither WW2 pillbox, this time on the Wales Coast Path in Pembrey, Carmarthenshire. So...
People Driving Home From The Factories
Today was a good day for a long painting after getting out really early to go for my walk before the temperature got too high. And when things did...