Author: ArtisticActuary

Mabel Edith Butler

And here it is, the final piece in the On The Buses collection.  It's Mum, played by the late Doris Hare.  And, yes, I know, I've cheated here by...

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Stan Butler

Number five in the On The Buses collection is Stan Butler, played by the late Reg Varney, equally famous for being the first person ever to use a...

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Olive Rudge

Number four in the On The Buses collection is Olive, played by Anna Karen. Recognisable but not a great likeness.  That's starting to become the...

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Jack Harper

Number three in the On The Buses Collection is Jack Harper, played by the late Bob Grant.  This one has taken a while as my black marker and the...

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Cyril Blake

And today's second work is Cyril Blake, played by the late Stephen Lewis.  I think we all know where this collection is going now, yeah? While...

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Arthur Rudge

I almost made it through the whole of December without doing any artwork, which was a bit worrying.  I thought I'd better get back to it before...

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Christmas Stash

As life slowly reverts back to (the new) normal, it's time for me to show off what new art gear I got for Christmas. First up is a Meeden...

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My Feet

And here's the last of the Bert Dodson exercise drawings that I'll be sharing.  I think all he asked us to do was to make ourselves comfortable and...

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Paul

Another exercise from the Bert Dodson book.  I was tasked with drawing a portrait of someone with a head pointed downwards so that the face was a...

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My Eyes

It's been a couple of years since I first read Keys To Drawing by Bert Dodson.  My original plan was to attempt every single exercise in the book...

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H2 2021:Survey Results

Thanks to everyone that's voted.  It's time for me to accept that I'm unlikely to get many (or any?) more responses in, so it's time for me to look...

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EvaE

More figure drawing.  Today's model is EvaE, making her debut. I came in today with two objectives, both around reverting back to techniques that...

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The Allman Brothers Band

An idea came in the night to me.  It was to use inktense pencils to draw some sort of skyliney landscape but negatively, leaving trees and...

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KylieB

I have a new model today.  This is KylieB. I thought she looked cold in the source photo, so I thought I'd make the photo cold too and avoid all my...

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H2 2021 Poll

I reckon it's that sort of time.  I've created another of my biannual art polls.  If anyone can spare a couple of minutes to vote, I'd be very...

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Professor Frank Kelly CBE FRS

Last up in the Christ's College Maths Fellows 1982-86 collection is Frank Kelly.  He may have been lecturer for my course on Markov Chains: I'm...

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Professor John Wilson

Allow me to present Professor John Stuart Wilson.  Our first pure maths supervisor and the guy that dragged us all kicking and screaming from...

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Doctor Richard Maunder

Second up in the Christ's Maths Fellows 1982-86 collection is Richard Maunder.  This guy was an absolute legend.  He was a pure mathematician, into...

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