To show size and a better colour representation of that yellow as it suddenly looks so bright in the original photo. Oil on linen 30 x 40cm

Self Portrait as a Shadow with Kaye Donachie Postcard. Oil on linen. 30 x 40cms My latest shadow self portrait.

Manchester & Salford, November 11th 2025 First Light: 06.06 Sunrise: 07.27 Sunset: 16.17 Nightfall: 17.38

IT HAPPENED TO ME: I stopped faffing about and Did The Thing and it turns out that this is What Gets Things Done.

Breeding season Bella and Bertie get down to business

@northresidentart.bsky.social thank you for the reposting

Self Portrait as a Shadow with Kaye Donachie Postcard. Oil on linen. 30 x 40cms My latest shadow self portrait.

A small sad love poem for #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

Claude Francis Barry’s paintings of WW1 are amongst the most accomplished of his works, with his images of searchlights across London being the most evocative - here (1918) he used small concentrated dots of colour to create an atmospheric haze of light.

When Whistler showed 'Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket,' in 1875, he outraged the chief moralist of art John Ruskin: 'I... never expected to hear a coxcomb ask 200 guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.' And so a lawsuit began.

Ty - lashes. Oil on linen One of a trio of paintings I made of the fantastic @tyjeffries.bsky.social getting ready at the Chelsea Arts club a while back.

Moody flowers for an oddly moody day. Oil on canvas

The sublime in action in Porthcawl yesterday

Afternoon! I'm doing another Portraits and Prosecco workshop with Kellie Bright in St Albans on 7th Nov. See link for details! No art skills needed. Its suitable for beginners and anyone wanting to experiment with learning something new and have a fun evening out www.instagram.com/p/DQAANfajGI...

Walter Sickert's 'Noctes Ambrosianae,' (1906) holds a pun. Ambrosian Nights: ambrosia is the food of the gods; 'the gods' is the nickname for a theatre's gallery, the high place where the cheap tickets are, where the impecunious, sit.

Painting hands is my favourite thing of all the things to paint

Afternoon! I'm doing another Portraits and Prosecco workshop with Kellie Bright in St Albans on 7th Nov. See link for details! No art skills needed. Its suitable for beginners and anyone wanting to experiment with learning something new and have a fun evening out www.instagram.com/p/DQAANfajGI...

If you use Gen AI to make images to accompany your posts, I’ll think poorly of you, and probably just mute or block. I imagine I’m not alone in that reaction. I don’t need to see that crap. Do what any sensible person does, and illustrate your point with GIFs of Allo Allo.

Really happy with how this commission turned out. Loved the challenge of painting the foamy sea. Oil on ampersand gessobord 24 x 18 inches

One of my favourite commissions of recent times. I love painting my selfies so it was such a brilliant challenge to be given this more retro selfie to paint. Oil on linen.

One of my favourite commissions of recent times. I love painting my selfies so it was such a brilliant challenge to be given this more retro selfie to paint. Oil on linen.

To the Future 2020 oil on canvas. A self portrait by way of introduction. I painted this in spring/summer 2020 in lockdown. I was on my own and found the experience isolating but also somewhat liberating in part. This painting explores the anxiety and loneliness I felt.

The fruitflies are really overstaying their very limited welcome this year.

Mathew. Oil on linen. This is still my favourite composition. At first I was really scared of painting the background black and I didn't know how to balance the two halves of the painting - but I decided to go for it and see what happened.

A portrait painting is something that can be passed down through generations. They don't have to be huge or imposing. I love doing smaller intimate commissions like this which are more affordable but just as beautiful. I have space coming up in November. Website is best place to contact me!

Goodbye summer. Goodbye peonies. Pink peonies. Oil on canvas

Me drawing me drawing me drawing me. Self portrait in charcoal.

Me drawing me drawing me drawing me. Self portrait in charcoal.

Adored painting this portrait. I don't often get the chance to paint larger commissions so it was a lovely thing to be asked to do. Oil on linen. 130 x 85cm @fomachete.bsky.social

Goodbye summer. Goodbye peonies. Pink peonies. Oil on canvas

This is such a clever idea on taking kids to museums/galleries www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Signs

'Portrait of a Girl.' (1904) From early in his career, Ian Strang was recognized as a brilliant draughtsman. He was much admired for his portrait drawings, inspired by those of Hans Holbein in the Royal Library at Windsor Castle.

After the world’s longest hiatus, my TV nostalgia podcast - The Box of Delights - is coming back for a real actual series of new episodes. And you don’t have long to wait!

A portrait painting is something that can be passed down through generations. They don't have to be huge or imposing. I love doing smaller intimate commissions like this which are more affordable but just as beautiful. I have space coming up in November. Website is best place to contact me!

It's a dream I always have.

'Miss Collins.' (1924) William Beckwith McInnes won the Archibald Prize (Australia's prestigious award for portraiture) seven times. Writing in defence of his style of realism: 'in Australia we have not been bitten by Cubism or Futurism or other isms … and I am glad of it'.

To-night I am going to clean my briefcase again, and then perhaps go to the discotheque and have an early night I hope.

Mathew. Oil on linen. This is still my favourite composition. At first I was really scared of painting the background black and I didn't know how to balance the two halves of the painting - but I decided to go for it and see what happened.

In 1916, Edvard Munch bought a property known as Ekely in the town of Skøyen, near present-day Oslo. The two-story villa served as his house and studio, becoming for Munch what Giverny was for Monet. This self-portrait was painted while he was visiting Bergen for an exhibition.

Self portraits with shoes. Oil on gessobord. 5 x 7 inches

This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.

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Self portraits with shoes. Oil on gessobord. 5 x 7 inches

Commissions are very much open ✨

A large portrait I'd just finished this time last year. I loved getting to grips with the complexity of the dress and subtlies of the background. Oil on linen.

My hands

My hands

Stevie. Oil on panel. Walking a tightrope between expression and realism.

Anselm Hollo