screen shot (felt pen) Some book I was reading the other day called for a commitment by the reader-artist to draw from life a minimum of...

tourist View (Canadian Rockies) Last year I had something of an eipiphany when I realised I was more interested in the tourists than the...

study on shellac (drama extract) Been meaning for ages to try out painting with oil on paper sized with shellac instead of oil primer....

girl with doll (II) (underpainting) The major preoccupation of the last couple of months has been to check the authenticity and integrity...

Belvedere and High Rises across the Buttes Chaumont Mad impulse to paint outdoors on this fine sunny day. Mad because it meant walking...

bikes, rue Bichat Enough of oil. Back to inky drawings and water pen. Still no relief from unwanted Rorschach tattoos though. The pen lid...

works in progress The other day I was seized by an impulse to use a mix of Prussian blue and Cadmium Red for a painting. Poking around...

doll with soldier (study) oil on paper 120cm x 100cm Painting out of the imagination with absolutely no reference materials to hand, no...

study (lemon yellow) oil on board 9″ x 10″ a day of priming apart from 15 minutes messing with lemon yellow.

Tourist View (Canadian Rockies) oil on paper 100 x 150cm On holiday last year, it took me a week or so to realise I was more interested...

painting from sketch of actor on tv Justifying watching Netflix.

oil study (sacrifice of the feminine) (soldier) (oil on paper 110 x 80cm) Stuff’s a bit busy what with convergence of my taxi driver role...

accidentally discovering a perfect new transfer medium Transfer mediums never seem to work as easily and effortlessly as I want....

Back in the studio, the remnant of old canvas I decided to recycle proved an unforgiving and slow surface. After a few hours of scrubbing...

Redrawing a sketch in paint Starting the day in the studio, some form of warm up exercise is always a nice idea. Plucking a sketch from...

Domestic Street, looking south-ish One problem with studying the banal is the issue of beauty. Just because a subject is boringly...

Holbeck Viaduct (detail) work in progress More work on the old surface using up old materials to depict a Holbeck panorama. #holbeck...

Visiting a brilliant Cornelia Parker exhibition today at the stunningly-refurbished Whitworth Art Gallery in Manchester, we were riveted...