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A painty-sketch of the Alps, three days ago. If you try to paint any Swiss landscape realistically, you're doomed to produce kitsch...

A third installment of my adaptations of iconic, mid-century kitsch art. Leonardo da Vinci meets Vladimir Tretchikoff's Chinese Girl, ...

Sloppy 6am insomnia painty-doodle of Basil Rathbone. If you think it looks more like Charles Dance, then it's Charles Dance. If it...

Shakespeare's 'lost mirth' monologue from Hamlet pretty much sums up my feelings about Christmas (and the state of the world) this year,...

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......

Portrait of A. Again, I used Arnaldo Putzu's commercial painting style as a starting point.

I'm a big fan of commercial artist Arnaldo Putzu who created art for everything from movie posters ( Get Carter, From Russia with Love, ...

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...

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...

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...

When choosing source imagery, I tend to gravitate towards photos/shots from Hollywood's Golden Age because the light was so dynamic....

Another crack at Joan Crawford. The image is from the 1945 film Mildred Pierce by Michael Curtiz. I also used the painting in a...

Orson Welles or Ernest Hemingway - you decide!

Another attempt at mid-late 20th century cinema poster paint styles.

I recently attempted a cinema poster in the 1960s/70s style and created a new poster for the film Fahrenheit 451 (see HERE ). This week,...

Quick Friday morning crack at auntie Joan. Don't think she'd be happy with the lighting or other wonky bits.

I have a mild obsession with film poster painting style from the 1960s and 1970s, but never really thought to try it myself. I chose...