Author: ArtisticActuary

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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Summer 2019 Poll

The nights are fair drawin' in and I don't think I'll be out in the garden painting much more this year, so I think it's time for another painting...

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Something Different For Christmas?

It's just over ten weeks to Christmas. If you wanted to buy something different, have you thought about a painting? If you press "For Sale"on the...

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Father And Son

That review of Drawing On The Right Side Of The Brain is coming soon, I promise!

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DNA

And here's the second of the day.  This is all out abstract.  I cracklepasted a board a couple of days ago (with watercolour ground applied to the...

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Schneesturm

Two paintings today, both on cracklepasted board and both with the help of acrylic inks to bring out the cracks.  This is the first. This one...

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Key Street, Florida

First things first.  This painting was inspired by a photo by Harvey Jones that I saw on the BBC website.  He has a Flickr account...

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