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Michael, Hot And Cold

After a couple of days off I'm back in action today.  But with a family do on tomorrow, I don't want to start a coloured pencil portrait and have...

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The YouTube Six

And here are the YouTube six in their full glory.  Somehow Lee's ugly arms and Liron's cartoony smile are no longer a problem.  These six guys just...

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Liron Yanconsky

  Hey, what's up, it's the Artistic Actuary here.   After portraits of a music reactor, a mathy, a physicist, a chess nut boasting in an open foyer...

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Lee Davey, The MacMaster

Now then my friends, I am in the Kent village of Hartlip and I'm here to show you the fifth in my collection of marker portraits if YouTube...

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Parth G

Hi there.  My name is The Artistic Actuary and today I'm going to show you the third of my collection of six YouTube content creators. We've had a...

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Michael Penn

The second of my six YouTube subject areas is maths.  This is Michael Penn who does maths videos.  He seems to be a pure mathematician, into number...

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John Cleese

I had a premonition the other day.  Maybe it's all to do with new episodes of Fawlty Towers being created but I've convinced myself that John...

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Warren Haynes

I'm back to the coloured pencils today after a day off to check out potential garden art studios.  I just think I need a few more coloured pencil...

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The Colours Of Nuuk

It's really cold outside today but I wanted to do some watercolour painting, so I picked some subject matter that had lots of simple shapes and...

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Twelve Angry Men

I saw this film on the telly the other day.  Twelve Angry Men.  It was released in 1957 and is a masterpiece.  Twelve members of a jury debate a...

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Chalk Face, Queendown Warren

I've been waiting a while for today to come round.  The weather forecast was for the warmest day of the year so far and I've been itching to head...

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David Suchet

It's still too cold to be out painting, so I'm indoors with the coloured pencils again.  And, to be honest, I could do with having more portraits...

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Moeen Ali, The Beard To Be Feared

I'm back to cricket player portraits today.  After my disastrous Stuart Broad portrait, I'm having another attempt at a bowler who could bat for me...

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Annual Self Portrait 2023

It's that time of year when a certain job comes up.  It's time for the annual self portrait, something that I've been looking forward to for a...

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Climate Change

It's been a while now since my last painting but I decided earlier in the week that today was going to be my first watercolour day of 2023.  The...

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Stuart Broad

I don't want to spend more time talking about this one than I have to, so let's get on with it.  It's another cricketer portrait.  I needed two...

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Graham Thorpe

I've been in action with coloured pencils again.  This one took me three days.  It let me use some of the ideas that I picked up from the Karen...

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