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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...

Leland Palmer, played by Ray Wise, from David Lynch's Twin Peaks. Painted mostly in Krita with a couple of minor tweaks in Affinity.

I tend to doodle, scribble and sketch when I'm anxious (see the US election). Here's one of author of William Burroughs who said, in his...

Yet another image I probably won't have the patience to finish. Bruno S. in Werner Herzog's Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle ( The...

Just a sketch to test out some new Krita brushes.

Here’s a selection of rare, 1960s-1980 horror double-bills you may have missed at the time: Dawn of the Bod, Play School, Emus of the...

All were photographed during a recent trip to Valais.

I don't consider myself a photographer, although I've snapped a fair few pictures in my time. I don't share them very often so I thought...

I don't consider myself a photographer, although I've snapped a fair few pictures in my time. I don't share them very often so I thought...

I don't consider myself a photographer, although I've snapped a fair few pictures in my time. I don't share them very often so I thought...

Seeing as it's the 65th anniversary of the release of Kind of Blue by Miles Davis, I thought I'd re-create the test/white pressing & 1st...

Mashup: Bruegel's Hunters in the Snow (1565) versus Rick Guidice's space colony painting for NASA's Ames Research Center (1975). It's...

Here's another exercise that attempts to suggest paint with vector graphics exclusively (Affinity Designer). I chose a favourite detail...

This is just a rough exercise that attempts to approximate the look of paint in a completely vector graphic environment. I've re-created...

I had a dream last night that I was a celebrated entrepreneur in the early 1980s, and I launched a trendy, cool, cutting-edge ad campaign...