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Richard Littler
6 days ago1 min read
Don Trump's Pleasure Paradise
A 'leaked' architectural drawing revealing plans for how The White House might be adapted to reflect the incumbent president's tastes and...
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Richard Littler
Mar 91 min read
Tiles of Topkapı Palace
A few years ago, I took these photos of some of the 16th and 17th century tiles in Topkapı Palace, Istanbul.
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Richard Littler
Feb 101 min read
Vector Exercise (Mary, Mungo & Midge)
I don't know what possessed me, but I re-created the block of flats from the 1969 kids' TV series Mary, Mungo and Midge exclusively as a...
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Richard Littler
Jan 271 min read
Stairwells
I think people look at me strangely when I'm taking photographs of stairwells. If you get the angles just so, there's something almost...
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Richard Littler
Jan 211 min read
Murderous Intent
My dad recently self-published a book of his short crime stories 'Murderous Intent' (available everywhere) and I helped out with the...
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Richard Littler
Jan 171 min read
David Lynch
A quick crack at David Lynch. Absolutely gutted that he's gone. Few artists have influenced me as much as him. Scarfolk, for example,...
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Richard Littler
Jan 41 min read
Alpine Sketch
A painty-sketch of the Alps, three days ago. If you try to paint any Swiss landscape realistically, you're doomed to produce kitsch...
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Richard Littler
Dec 30, 20241 min read
Mona Lisa, 1971 (I'm Wondering if the Charity Shop Will Realise... Part 3)
A third installment of my adaptations of iconic, mid-century kitsch art. Leonardo da Vinci meets Vladimir Tretchikoff's Chinese Girl, ...
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Richard Littler
Dec 26, 20241 min read
Quick Insomnia Sketch
Sloppy 6am insomnia painty-doodle of Basil Rathbone. If you think it looks more like Charles Dance, then it's Charles Dance. If it...
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Richard Littler
Dec 23, 20241 min read
A Christmassy Hamlet Adaptation
Shakespeare's 'lost mirth' monologue from Hamlet pretty much sums up my feelings about Christmas (and the state of the world) this year,...
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Richard Littler
Dec 21, 20241 min read
Harmony of Spring (+ Corpse)
I'm wondering if the charity shop will realise I've added a corpse to Harmony of Spring, the kitsch-classic painting by Vernon Ward......
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Richard Littler
Dec 18, 20241 min read
4-ish Tone Paint Exercise
Portrait of A. Again, I used Arnaldo Putzu's commercial painting style as a starting point.
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Richard Littler
Dec 13, 20241 min read
Paint Style Exercise (Putzu)
I'm a big fan of commercial artist Arnaldo Putzu who created art for everything from movie posters ( Get Carter, From Russia with Love, ...
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Richard Littler
Dec 9, 20241 min read
Groucho Paint/Colour Exercise
I'm a bit obsessed with the Marx Brothers at the moment and I'm reading Hello, I Must Be Going: Groucho and His Friends by film writer...
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Richard Littler
Dec 3, 20241 min read
Wings of Love (+ Clangers)
I'm wondering if the charity shop will realise I've added Clangers and a Clanger Music Boat to Wings of Love , the 1972, kitsch-classic...
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Richard Littler
Dec 1, 20241 min read
Bond Mash-Up
I just stumbled across this forgotten graphic in my proverbial drawer of graphics. Around the time of the last Bond film, No Time To Die...
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Richard Littler
Nov 28, 20241 min read
Yet Another Paint Test
When choosing source imagery, I tend to gravitate towards photos/shots from Hollywood's Golden Age because the light was so dynamic....
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