Author: ArtisticActuary

Two Self Portraits

All these portraits I've been rattling out with markers and I only just realised that I've not done any self portraits with the markers yet.  Time...

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Different Tables

I'm still at Medway Services and thought I'd carry on drawing when I saw this guy in green arrive.  He looked a bit sad in that beanie and had an...

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Cathy

I've fallen into a trap.  Now everybody wants me to draw their portrait on their birthday.  This weekend it was Cathy's birthday and this is my...

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Lizzie

It's also Lizzie's birthday today, so here's another portrait.  I think this is more recognisably Lizzie than Amanda was Amanda.  You can see from...

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Amanda

I'm quite getting into this portrait drawing with markers, although I still have a long way to go before I can call myself anything near...

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View Of Cafe Nero From Costa

I'm in London today, off to see Tedeschi Trucks Band and Blackberry Smoke at Wembley Arena.  Should be good.  Anyway, I thought I'd take the...

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Clive

Another portrait.  This is Clive the bantering butcher from the local farmshop at MB Farms (http://www.mbfarms.co.uk/index.html) in Stockbury,...

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Jimbo

More Tuesday portraiture and it's another bassist and Facebook friend.  This is Jimbo, a mate from school, bassist with grungy rock duo Matildaz...

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Roy With A Beard

It's Tuesday and Sky Portrait Artist Of The Year is on later, so I was in the mood for a bit of portraiture.  Obviously using markers.  I'm nowhere...

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Day Trip To Canterbury

I nipped into Canterbury today for lunch with an old work colleague and thought I'd make a day of it by getting there early and giving the markers...

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Nathan In Colour

My first exercise with these new markers was to trace out the picture I'd drawn of Nathan  a couple of  months ago and apply a bit of colour to it....

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Winsor & Newton Promarkers

These beasts were waiting for me on Christmas morning.  They're all Winsor & Newton Promarkers with a chisel head at one end and a pointy one...

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Nathan

This is the result of one of the exercises in Keys To Drawing by Bert Dodson.  It's a portrait of one of my kids in the style of Henri Matisse.  I...

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Summer 2019 Poll Results

Here are the results of the latest poll.  Hidden Village came out equal top.  Otherwise no big surprises really. People are still welcome to vote...

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