Blue Zebra
2/5/2019 Last month saw us taking the grandchildren to Twycross Zoo and I just loved the zebras.Dusted off my box of acrylics for this one. Good start with the drawing, but gave up trying to draw the...
View ArticleRip Up Your LP's!
Back in the early 1960's, like most other teenagers, I quickly developed an interest pop music played on the radio. I would listen to Radio Luxembourg which was one of the few radio stations that...
View ArticleFor The Love Of Portraiture
This is my first post for 2017, and I've started the year working (mostly) on portraits. I seem to have an endless passion and fascination in painting people. Whether it's just a head, head and...
View ArticleOver the Sea to the US
One of my portrait paintings has winged it's way over the Atlantic to be with its new owner.This is the second portrait that I have done of Janna.She tells me that she and her family love it - so nice...
View ArticlePainting the Show
Sheep Judging at the Leicester County Show - 400x300cm Oil on boardThis year saw the revival of the Leicester County Show, which was held at Airfield Farm just to the North of Market Harborough. Having...
View ArticleCan I Make My Own Frames?
The high cost of getting work framed these days can push the price tag of our paintings quite high. While this may not be a problem for established artists who can command a good price for their work,...
View ArticleThe Ewe in Oils
At the end of first stage I usually complete one painting about every 1 to 2 weeks, depending on the size of the support or type of medium used. If it's a request or commission, maybe a a little...
View ArticleNew Paints
Self 2015 Oil on canvas paper 30x40 cm.One year in the early 1970’s I attended an evening course learning how to paint in oils with local tutor Edna Bull. Being in my mid-twenties and a family man, I...
View ArticleLe Nonne
Le NonneThe main reason I paint these days is for my own personal pleasure and not what many people like or want to buy for that matter. Come to think of if it, I haven't sold a painting since last...
View ArticleWe Visit the National Portrait Gallery
People near Fountain. Pen & Wash 20x20 cmMembers of our art club were fortunate enough to have a coach trip down to London to visit the National Portrait gallery yesterday. The BP 2014 Portrait...
View ArticleItalian Cyclists
Italian Cyclists - acrylic 30x40 cmsIsn't it funny how you read all these articles in art magazines by competent artists who give you step-by-step instructions on how to create a masterpiece like...
View ArticleGreat Bowden Village Boxing Day Meet
Great Bowden Boxing Day MeetIt is a tradition that goes back many years to hold the Fernie Hunt opening Meet on the village green in Great Bowden, Leicestershire. I try to attend this yearly event...
View ArticleLondon Tourists - the finished painting
This has been the longest ever time that I've taken over a painting. It has also been on and off the shelf since its conception. I've been both tremendously excited and absolutely fed-up with it at...
View ArticleLino Printing - Simple, or is it?
Done SledgingIt's been almost a year since I posted anything on here despite so much that has happened in that time. 2013 has been a good year for me, sold a number of paintings and greetings cards,...
View ArticleLuligirl for JKPP
Luligirl for JKPP a photo by Frank B10 on Flickr.Much as I love watercolour painting, sometimes a desire comes over me to just get a pencil and draw. In this case, it's portraiture again. For some...
View ArticleMarilyn
MarilynThey say that Marilyn Monroe was found dead in the nude, and I'm sure that a light went out in many a man's eye on hearing that news on the day of August 5th 1962. Marilyn is still a hugely...
View ArticleA Change of Direction?
After the Storm Over Rape Field. 305 x 210 mm watercolour and pen.A Change of Direction?This is my first foray into cubism. I've never really liked Picasso’s cubism works or cubism in general, until I...
View ArticleWhat Happens When I Die?
30 Tourists - Part one30 Tourists. Drawing on Canvas for Acrylic Paint (20x50cm).This week at the South Leicestershire Art Group (SLAGs), I started a new project. After doing three lengthy...
View ArticleOld Grammar School, Market Harborough
The Old Grammar School. (30x40cms) acrylic on stretched canvas.I've lived in the busy town of Market Harborough for many years now and spent a lot of my working hours pounding the streets delivering...
View ArticleA New Venture
Speckled Hen. Acrylic 20 x 20cms on stretched canvasbox frame £30While looking through my photos for some inspiration for a painting recently, I came across a few shots of some bantams that I had taken...
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