30 October 2013 Here are some rocks. The painting is based on a photo of a rocky outcrop in a canyon somewhere in America. It was another chance...
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An Ugly Mountain
29 October 2013 We’re now in the Facebook era and everything I paint is going up there. This means I get to show off all the clunkers on this...
Two Random Landscapes
I wasn’t very good at painting and not that committed to improving. I would have a quick burst of painting, then do nothing for three or four...
Pathside Sheep
So we finally get on to watercolour. I've always been hopeless at drawing or painting, so I don't know why it was that I went on the watercolour...
Mad Cow Disease
And here's the final piece of jig-art, made from the leftovers from Virgin On The Ridiculous. Just like Career Woman, this is framed and on the...
Career Woman
You're probably wondering what happens to all the pieces left over from the jig-art. Do the remaining pieces ever fit together into something good?...
Virgin On The Ridiculous
Flushed with success I did another piece of jig-art a few years later. Maybe 1997ish. This time I went for 1500-piece puzzles. One was The...
It’s A Jungle Out There!
First up and it's not a watercolour. I call it jig-art. I did this back in the early to mid 90s. It struck me one day that all jigsaws the same...
Welcome To The Artistic Actuary
Welcome to The Artistic Actuary. I am The Artistic Actuary. An actuary who paints a few watercolours and has even managed to sell some of them....