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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...

Richard Littler
Mar 141 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.

Richard Littler
Mar 91 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...

Richard Littler
Feb 101 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...

Richard Littler
Jan 271 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...

Richard Littler
Jan 211 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,...

Richard Littler
Jan 171 min read



Richard Littler
Jan 100 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...

Richard Littler
Jan 41 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, ...

Richard Littler
Dec 30, 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...

Richard Littler
Dec 26, 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,...

Richard Littler
Dec 23, 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......

Richard Littler
Dec 21, 20241 min read



Richard Littler
Dec 20, 20240 min read


4-ish Tone Paint Exercise
Portrait of A. Again, I used Arnaldo Putzu's commercial painting style as a starting point.

Richard Littler
Dec 18, 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, ...

Richard Littler
Dec 13, 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...

Richard Littler
Dec 9, 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...

Richard Littler
Dec 3, 20241 min read



Richard Littler
Dec 2, 20240 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...

Richard Littler
Dec 1, 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....

Richard Littler
Nov 28, 20241 min read
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