Wonderful natural breasts Watercolour on A3 paper
portraits
Hitomi Tanaka
Retired erotic dancer, actress, performer, artist Watercolour on A3 paper
Shibari girl, Hitomi Tanaka
Watercolour and white gouache on A3 paper
Boobiful Hitomi Tanaka
Watercolour and some gouache on A3 paper
Mixed media sketch
Of beautiful photographic model Hitomi Tanaka Posing in sexy lingerie
Portrait of gorgeous Hitomi Tanaka
Leaving the shower room Watercolour on A3 paper
Watercolour sketch of Hitomi Tanaka
Cropped Drawing was fine but many painting errors!
Beautiful Hitomi Tanaka
Watercolour study on A3 paper
Actress Hitomi Tanaka
Doing her angry sulking little girl look. (Which I love!) Pencil and soft pastel (a very messy medium) on A3…
Love this look
Hitomi Tanaka. Black ink, pen, brush, on A3 paper.
Actress and Japanese beauty
Hitomi Tanaka In the role of a housewife hanging out washing Brush, pen, black ink on A3
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
Blowin’ in the wind
Mixed media art
More experimental stuff
Watercolour and some gouache on A3 paper
Francis Bacon
A quick watercolour study on A3 paper
Hitomi doing her cute look
Black ink, brush and pen, A3 paper
Beautiful Hitomi, an unfinished study
Pencil, brush, pen, ink, watercolour, gouache, on A3 paper.
Hitomi, in pink, pretty as a picture
Gouache on A3 paper.
Hitomi in a T-shirt
Gouache on A3 paper
Hitomi, hot lips
Rotring ink, pen, brush; gouache red-mauve; A3 paper.
Heavenly Hitomi in a bikini
(Haven’t bothered to paint in the bikini.) Watercolour and gouache white scumbles on A3 paper.
Hitomi
Rephotographed this morning in daylight… straight watercolour in progress Digitally modified watercolour in progress
Classic Hitomi.
A study in pencil and soft pastel on A3 paper.
Hitomi Tanaka, a study in blue and orange
Watercolour and gouache on A3 paper
Irish farmers, grand old characters
Pen, brush, ink on A3 paper
With mouth agape
Pencil and tap water on A3 paper Both finished and unfinished
Bath time
Brush, pen, ink washes on A3 paper
Pretty girl in a big hat
Watercolour drawing on A3 paper
Young woman on mobile
Black ink, pen and brush, on A3 paper
Wunderbra!
Rotring pen, brush, ink, A3 paper
Three quarter view
Watercolour washes on A3 paper Image cropped square
‘A’ sunbathing
Watercolour drawing on A3
Continuing to experiment
Watercolour drawing / illustration on A3
Experimental work
Watercolour drawing on A3 paper
Woman looking downwards, profile view
Rotring pen, brush, ink on A3 paper
‘M’
Faber-Castell Polychromos pencil on A3 paper
Hitomi
Pen, brush and ink on A3 paper
And yet another beauty
Pen and brush and ink on A3
Another beautiful young woman
Graphic art Pen, brush, Indian ink on A3
Portrait of ‘H’
A stunning beauty Rotring pen Indian ink and brush on A3 paper
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
The Indian Princess
A little more work done on the portrait of this beautiful girl
Portrait of a girl smiling
WIP update 04/03/2022 Just a short session of painting on this piece… still a long way to go!
I have no doubt that Camus was murdered by the KGB. It’s not just Giovanni Catelli’s book that has persuaded me of this but also my own observations (over 70 years) and experiences of the dark side of life and its twisted machinations.
Paying homage to Albert Camus
A man of true integrity Just a quick sketch in pen, pencil, and charcoal on A3 paper
Funeral of the poet, philosopher, atheist, vegetarian, political activist, feminist… Percy Bysshe Shelley
A fine painting by Louis Edouard Fournier In the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
Another portrait study
Initial pencil and charcoal drawing on a 14 x 14″ canvas Update, 23/02/2022. Background roughed in. Update, 22/02/2022. Charcoal drawing…
Repainting an old oil study
Wasn’t happy with it! Splashed some paint over it a couple of weeks ago. Left it to dry. And now…
Portrait of a smiling girl WIP
Watercolour, approx 11 x 16″ Update 16/02/2022 Still a long way to go with this one Just started this one,…
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 –…
Self-portrait
This evening, (14/02/2022,) sunlight streaming in through the window Digitally modified photo
In the Line of Beauty
Two images. [1] Pen and ink and smudged charcoal on A4 drawing pad paper. [2] The same as [1] but…
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.…
Just a quick pen and ink study
Rotring pen on A4 paper (sketchbook)
Line works
I don’t know why, (one could write a book on the subject,) but it does… it works very well! Portrait…
Face to face
Rotring pen and ink on A4
Mermaid in fishnets
Rotring pen and ink Charcoal smudges A4 Digitally tweaked
Femme au chapeau rouge
Rotring pen and ink ,10 nib Chinese ink stick wash watercolour A4
The face works
Not sure about the rest of it Rotring pens and Chinese ink stick washes on A4 Digitally tweaked
Reading lines
Rotring Isograph pen ,10 nib A4 paper Very thin lines
Portrait of a man
Frederic Chopin Rotring pens and Chinese ink stick washes on A4 paper After an image of a Daguerreotype
It’s great to be twenty-five!
Rotring pen, (nibs: ,50 and ,10), charcoal, stub
Girl
,50 nib Rotring pen on A4
The language of line
A4 paper ,50 nib Rotring pen
After…
a photographic image, a bronze, a plaster cast,
Power to the people
Power to the people, a wip, oil on canvas 40 x 20″ #powertothepeople#powertotheyoungpeople#powertowomen#powertothepoor#art#painting#protest#humanrights#libertyleadingthepeople
Reclining nude
Oil colour on canvas Work in progress
My friend Cat
A fun-filled drawing/painting of my good friend. Pencil, charcoal, soft pastel, watercolour, gouache, on A3 Ingres paper.
Three recent small oil paint studies
of a porn star
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…
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…
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…
A couple more selected sketches on A3 paper and also an impressionistic oil painting on 20×12″ canvas
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…
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…
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…
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…
Study in (mostly) yellow and blue
Pen and ink and watercolour on A3 paper
Pinup, etc
Digitally enhanced version
Pinup
Homage to Alain Aslan Watercolour on A3 paper Art relevant to the world now. To hell with abstract expressionism. To…
Hitomi Tanaka sexy Samurai etc
digitally enhanced version
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…
Curiouser…
Coloured pencil on handmade paper stretched over a 9 x 9″ stretcher-bar frame (like a canvas) An experiment Unable to…
Mock courtesan style
watercolour sketch on A3 paper of Japanese model ‘Meowko’ on a photoshoot dressed up in some sort of traditional Japanese…
Charcoal sketch of a Japanese beauty
Charcoal and blending stump on A3 paper
Three quarter length drawing of the model from a photo done in a pseudo 19th century French academic style
Mistakes abound but I am determined my drawing will improve (and thus my painting) I must go more slowly and…
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…
Shapely girl posing in lingerie
Pencil and watercolour drawing-sketch on A3 paper
Pretty girl pouting version 2
Tweaked with digital software
Pretty pouting girl
pencil and watercolour sketch on A3 paper
Pencil and watercolour sketch…
…of a partially nude girl, A3 paper Me still learning how to draw at my age! Wasted my life painting…
Smiling girl with beautiful hair
Unfinished pencil and watercolour drawing/sketch on A3 paper Leaving it at that
A Persian princess
pencil on A3 paper
Girl with pony tail hairstyle
Coloured pencil on A3 paper
One hour portrait of Hitomi Tanaka
I’ve been sketching, making small sketches of Hitomi, nothing worth showing here, but this one, on A3 paper is okay……
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…
In the meantime
a small study (oil on canvas) started of Hitomi Tanaka as the Greek goddess Panacea
Update…
initial thoughts… (this is a detail BTW…) wet paint… gotta be careful when the paint gets too wet otherwise you…
Three busty girls
Oil paint on 36 x 24″ canvas That’s about as much as I want to do with this piece Painted…
And the digitally tweaked version…
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…
Sketching Hitomi 3
Watercolour and 8B graphite aquarelle pencil on part-wet A3 paper
Sketching Hitomi 2
Fountain pen on A3 paper
Sketching Hitomi
4B graphite aquarelle pencil, sable hair brush and water, on A3 paper
Socrates
A wise man who came to the realisation that in all honesty and truth he knew nothing. Fountain pen sketch…
Ahmad Shah Massoud
Lion of Panjshir Fountain pen sketch on Arches paper. Image size 10 x 15″ Fine weatherbeaten face
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
Selfie with a flower in her hair
Fountain pen sketch on A4 paper My friend sent me a colour selfie and here is the handmade pen and…
Modern nymph
A quick fountain pen sketch on A3 paper
Her face
Fountain pen sketch on A4 watercolour paper
Dostoievsky
Fountain pen and ink on Arches watercolour paper Approx 12 1/2 x 19″
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
Standing figure study
mixed media sketch / drawing
Figure study
mixed media sketch / drawing
Quick charcoal and white Conté crayon sketch on paper filtered through digital art software
For technical reasons
to do with the nature of oil paint, I need to put this piece aside and leave it to dry…
Did a little more work on this piece but still a way to go
Must make more effort to finish these works I start… lol… needless to say this photo of the painting is…
working on this one
small oil painting on canvas