Month: August 2020

Rob Key

It's been a good summer of test cricket.  I was watching it yesterday and suddenly realised that Sky cricket pundit Rob key would make a great...

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The Rush Collection

And here's the complete set together.  It may even surpass the chess player set that I thought was my opus magnus. It's up for sale. To see the...

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Alex Lifeson

And here's Alex Lifeson, the third and final member of Rush. It's not the greatest likeness and the left hand and guitar aren't great but it fits...

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Neil Peart

Next up in either the Rush collection or supergroup collection is the late Neil Peart, one of the greatest drummers of all time and an amazing...

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Geddy Lee

Time for another set of marker portraits.  I've done chess, physics and westerns, so it's time to start on another passion: music. This is Geddy...

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Exposure

Headed over the road to the Rose &  Crown at Hartlip To order a lunchtime takeaway for tomorrow (GCSE results day).  I couldn’t resist taking a...

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Rhus

And here's another naked female figure.  This is Rhus, another model from artmodeltips.com. I took a different approach with this one.  This time,...

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JenB

I found a great website today.  It's artmodel tips.com and is a great source of material for figure drawing.  In particular there are lots of naked...

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Headless Amy

So I had another go at Amy, this time without a head.  I started from one of the one-minute sketches I did earlier as it looked so energetic and as...

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Amy

After the warmup, I was ready to do a proper picture of Amy using the inktense pencils. I started with a decent gesture drawing.  There's a nice...

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The Frankenstein-Dracula Variation

After reading Painting By Design by Charles Reid, I felt ready to attempt my first watercolour portrait.  It started off as the world chess...

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The Trio

This one has been brewing for a month or so and I've now got it out of my system after buying some decent paper for pencil drawing (and possibly...

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