After a day off I was back today with the oil pastels. For a subject I picked out comedy actor Brian Murphy. As usual I put down a pencil outline...
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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...
Introducing Potters’ Pink To The Team
It’s been a couple of years since I picked up three Daniel Smith Primatek colours for Christmas and I'm ready now to discuss their future. First...
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...
Freddie Mercury
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...
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...
Human Figure Drawing, Daniela Brambilla – Book Review
On to the last of my Christmas books. I've been looking forward to this one as it's an absolute monster. It's nit just hardback, it's not just...
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...
More Coloured Pencil Solvent Testing
After yesterday's late night fun, I kicked off today with three more experiments with coloured pencil solvents. First, I had an overnight thought...
Testing Coloured Pencil Solvent On Neil McCarthy
It's been a day for experimentation today. After reading the Alyona Nickelsen book, I thought I really should give solvents a go with coloured...
Ginger
A late start today because I've been reading Daniella Brambilla's book on figure drawing (review coming soon). Daniella did, though, give me an...
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...
Kingsferry Bridge Under Three Different Skies
It's a watercolour landscape day today. I've been saving up some photos with amazing looking skies that have been posted on Facebook by a couple...
Ronnie Wood
After John Lydon went so well the other day, I thought I'd have another go with the oil pastels. And because John came out looking old and battle...
Colored Pencil Painting Portraits, Alyona Nickelsen – Book Review
Time for another book review and today it's this one by Alyona Nickelsen. It's a 184 page paperback. I'll say right from the off that this isn't...
John Lydon In Oil Pastel
It was a tough call over who to paint today. ChatGPT wasn't able to come up with any celebrities I'd ever heard of whose birthday it was today....
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....
Out On Queendown Warren
A tale of two paintings today. It wasn’t supposed to come out like this but I've ended up with one in the background and one on the foreground....