Beautiful Hitomi Tanaka

Watercolour study on A3 paper

Fun and games

starring Hitomi Tanaka Pencil, watercolour, gouache, on A3 paper

Playful erotic Japanese beauty

Cropped digital image after pen and ink, watercolour / gouache and soft pastel, on A3 paper

Continuing to experiment

Watercolour drawing / illustration on A3

Black and white illustration

Portrait of ‘D’ Rotring pen, Indian ink and brush, A3 cartridge paper

Pencil and pastel sketch of ‘D’

After a photo, on A3 cartridge paper

Paying homage to Albert Camus

A man of true integrity Just a quick sketch in pen, pencil, and charcoal on A3 paper

The face of contemporary porn

Update, 06/03/2022 Painting completed Update, 18/07/2022 Leaving this to dry and will finish it off – details and glazes – … More

The quandary of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

(A portrait of the artist as Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde) [Detail from a self-portrait.] Pen and ink. Soft pastel. … More

Just a quick pen and ink study

Rotring pen on A4 paper (sketchbook)

My friend Cat

A fun-filled drawing/painting of my good friend. Pencil, charcoal, soft pastel, watercolour, gouache, on A3 Ingres paper.

Friedrich Nietzsche

An oil study 8 x 11″ canvas

Composition in acid yellow and garish pink

Drawn and painted fairly rapidly over another earlier drawing/painting… Charcoal and oil colour on 18 x 14″ canvas panel.

Camille Pissarro, a study in oils

24 x 30 canvas panel To hell with it! I’m letting my beard grow. This old Impressionist painter looks like … More

Second sketch/study of a pretty young Thai girl

Charcoal, pencil, pastel, white conte crayon Plus a digitally modified version

Thumbnail study/sketch of a pretty Thai girl

Pen and ink and soft pastel (mixed) I’m going to stop using this brand of ink because when I spray … More

Doodles, thumbnails, and a more ‘finished’ sketch of my muse Hitomi Tanaka

Various media and admixtures… trying out recently acquired soft pastels… thinking of Degas “You must do over the same subject … More

A few more sketches/drawings of my muse

Every painter, every poet, should have a muse. Without inspiration there is no art. A variety of media including a … More

Three pencil sketches of Japanese beauty Hitomi Tanaka

After Internet photos. ‘H’ and also ‘B’ pencil on A3 paper Maybe I’m going senile but I just can’t summon … More

WIP An oil painting after a Degas pastel on cardboard of 1886

Of a woman in her tub washing herself with a sponge Charcoal and a little ivory black in turpentine to … More

Seated nude, three variations

Watercolour on A3 paper plus two digitally modified variations that I like (the last one sort-of reminds me of the … More

Study in (mostly) yellow and blue

Pen and ink and watercolour on A3 paper

Pinup

Homage to Alain Aslan Watercolour on A3 paper Art relevant to the world now. To hell with abstract expressionism. To … More

Hitomi Tanaka as a sexy Samurai warrior

WIP watercolour on A3 paper

Just a detail…

…from a watercolour experiment on Arches paper, stretched on 18 x 12″ canvas stretchers Played about with the watercolour image … More

Curiouser…

Coloured pencil on handmade paper stretched over a 9 x 9″ stretcher-bar frame (like a canvas) An experiment Unable to … More

Mock courtesan style

watercolour sketch on A3 paper of Japanese model ‘Meowko’ on a photoshoot dressed up in some sort of traditional Japanese … More

Getting the drawing right is currently all that matters to me

Line drawing of my muse, Hitomi Tanaka, in pencil on A3 paper I think it is important to draw what … More

Shapely girl posing in lingerie

Pencil and watercolour drawing-sketch on A3 paper

Pretty girl pouting version 2

Tweaked with digital software

Pencil and watercolour sketch…

…of a partially nude girl, A3 paper Me still learning how to draw at my age! Wasted my life painting … More

A Persian princess

pencil on A3 paper

Girl with pony tail hairstyle

Coloured pencil on A3 paper

Speechless and angry with myself

I am a painter, an old painter, an experienced painter, a highly qualified artist, and yet I am making illustations … More

In the meantime

a small study (oil on canvas) started of Hitomi Tanaka as the Greek goddess Panacea

Sketching Hitomi 6

Coloured pencils on A3 paper

Sketching Hitomi 5

work still in progress

Sketching Hitomi 4

Work in progress. Coloured pencils – urgh! Takes ages to colour sections in! Not much time either since I spent … More

Sketching Hitomi 3

Watercolour and 8B graphite aquarelle pencil on part-wet A3 paper

Sketching Hitomi 2

Fountain pen on A3 paper

Beautiful or ugly?

Healthy or diseased? Fountain pen and watercolour on Arches paper. Size of image 20 x 8″

What are you trying to say?

Fountain pen and watercolour on A3 paper

No frills pen and ink

Fountain pen and ordinary ink with a little Indian ink added, A3 paper

The loneliness of the long distance porn star

More mark making with pencil, watercolour, fountain pen, Indian ink, on A3 paper

Playing with paint

Just seeing what happens Fountain pen, pencil, watercolour on A4 paper

Modern nymph

A quick fountain pen sketch on A3 paper

Detail from my sketch of Nijinsky dancing the faun

The body of a Greek god and the tortured soul of an artist

The Trial

of Franz Kafka Fountain pen and watercolour drawing on Arches watercolour paper 20½ x 28½”

Model viewed from behind

Fountain pen and aquarelle pencil on A4 watercolour paper