The Joker! Woi if only Oi had a nickel for every time he's foxed us! Yes, third up it's The Joker, played by Cesar Romero. I decided overnight...
Author: Steve
The Riddler
The Riddler! Back to plague us with his criminal conundrums! Next up in the United Underworld collection is The Riddler, played by Frank Gorshin....
The Penguin
The Penguin! Pompous waddling master of foul play, maestro of a million ubiquitous umbrellas! We're off on another collection of marker portraits...
Heeeere’s Jonny
I’ve had an idea for another set of marker portraits to get started on but had just one page left in a sketchbook and didn't want the set to...
The Good, The Bad And The Ugly: The Collection
And here they are, all together. As I expected, their positives as a set are greater than the sum of their individual positives. They're up for...
Il Brutto
So here's part 3 of 3 and that's the collection complete. Tuco followed the same methodology as the previous two paintings so, what I did (and I'm...
Il Cattivo
Number two in my The Good, The Bad And The Ugly collection is Angel Eyes, the bad one, played by Lee Van Cleef. In allocating supergranulating...
Il Buono
It's been more than a year since I painted a scene from a Western and I'm returning to that subject big time with a set of three paintings based on...
Towards Stockbury From Queendown Warren
Back to the artwork after a few days off, and this is looking like an understated return but there are few things that I tried out in this one,...
Essential Techniques Of Landscape Drawing, Suzanne Brooker – Book Review
So here's the book I got for Fathers' Day and have just spent three days reading. It's a 196 page hardback book, with reassuringly thick, shiny...
Coloured Pencil Primary Mixing Swatches
I got a new art book for Fathers' Day. The review is coming very soon, maybe tomorrow. I'm keeping the book a secret for now, but as something it...
Green Retreats
My art studio is well and truly complete following the placement this afternoon of a huge glass window unit that had some scratches in it. And now...
Results Of The H1 2023 Artistic Actuary Poll
Thanks to everyone that responded to my latest poll. I've had eighteen responses but things have gone quiet now, so I think it's time for me to...
View From First Post Corner, Cambridge
So after that last painting I followed a footpath that I'm sure didn't exist back in my day into Fenn Ditton to grab a lunchtime pint at The...
The Long Reach, Cambridge
So today I headed out to the river to do some painting. Not being allowed to paint inside colleges and having my building draftmanship confidence...
Looking In From Christ’s Pieces
For reasons (d) other I'm in Cambridge for a couple of days and brought most of my gear with me to do some painting. I forgot the kitchen roll and...
RIP Jazzy John Romita Snr, 1930–2023
Jerry Garcia And Bob Weir, Copenhagen 1972
With all this coloured pencil jamming I've been doing lately, I've been playing a lot of Grateful Dead. YouTube has obviously gotten wind of this,...
All Saints’ Church, Cambridge
It got to about half past five tonight, and after starting out thinking I was having a day off, I thought I might make a start on a coloured pencil...
Key Man
Lots of old keys laying around the house after getting all the doors and windows replaced, so I glued a load of them together just for the hell of...