Author: ArtisticActuary

Three Days Of Snow

Back to painting again today and, for reasons that will become apparent, I wanted to get in some practice at snow paintings.  So I looked through...

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Annie Mac

Portrait Artist Of The Week is back.  This is supposed to be Radio 1 DJ Annie Mac.  Believe it or not, I actually knew who this was - there used to...

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Michael

All my figure drawing so far has been of naked females and there are a lot of people out there who would rather see naked male bodies, so I...

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An Eye (A Work In Progress)

Today I painted an eye.  This is part of a larger work, the full details of which I'll keep a secret for now.  I can't get any further with that...

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Aubrey, Seated

As I said in the previous post, it was time to do something different with the figure drawing rather than just turning the handle on the sausage...

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Aubrey, Standing

Back to figure drawing with the inktense pencils.  This is Aubrey. To be honest, this feels a bit lazy.  I've done so many of these figures using...

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Landscape Artist Of The Year 2021

I've got my entry in early for Landscape Artist Of The Year 2021. I needed to submit a landscape painting.  I chose Sedona, Arizona. I was...

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The Cheetah Woman

After the painting experiment two days ago that I unwrapped yesterday, I had an overnight think and decided that I was going to press ahead and...

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Another Abstract Underpainting

The markers and inktense pencils haven't really been working out for me over the last week or so, so I thought I'd better brave the cold outside...

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Ayame

Back to the figure drawing and inktense pencils.  I wanted to come up with something with lots of white highlights on the flesh.  And at the same...

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Stephen Hawking

After John Paul Jones came out so well a couple of weeks ago, I wanted to have another go at drawing a portrait with markers by concentrating on...

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Jenni

The second bit of figure drawing of the day.  This time it's Jenni. Back to the colours that work best for me at this sort of thing, with lots of...

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Brie

It's cold and wet outside, so no chance of any painting.  Instead, I'm indoors with the inktense pencils and plenty of Models just waiting to be...

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AnaIv

After that last disaster, a quick response.  Figure drawing with the inktense pencils is much less risky than portraiture, so I went on to...

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The Sneer

Oh dear.  A portrait of Zinedine Zidane in inktense pencils that went horribly wrong. The worst thing about it is the mouth.  Oh and the general...

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Sedona, Arizona

Yesterday's High Noon painting was a bit lacking in colour for one of my creations, so I thought I'd do something colourful today: a three colour...

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High Noon

With not many ideas about what to paint and not wanting to keep doing abstract after abstract, I thought I'd have a go at another famous Western....

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The Tree Of Life

My second painting of the day was a lot more successful. The underpainting was again in ultramarine blue, raw sienna and burnt sienna.  With two...

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One For The Bin

All my artwork, good or bad, goes up on this website.  That's why I'm showing you this abomination. I saw a Jean Lurssen video this morning in...

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Led Zeppelin

And here's the complete Led Zep collection. The four drawings are all in different styles but work well as a set.  Four different colour...

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