Applications for Portrait Artist Of The Year need to be in by the end of January, so I thought I'd better make a start on the 2024 self portrait...
Category: Markers
The Dads Army Collection
And here it is completed: The Dads Army Collection. From left to right, top to bottom: – Captain Mainwaring – Wilson – Jonesy – Godfrey and Pike –...
Captain George Mainwaring
And finally here's the last portrait in the collection, Captain George Mainwaring, played by Arthur Lowe. Along with Walker, one of my two...
Sergeant Arthur Wilson II
I've had a second go at Wilson today. After painting Wilson and Walker the first time around I think my portraitist skills (or was it just my...
Private James Frazer
Today's addition to the set is Frazer, played by John Laurie, another actor born in the 19th century. After I found a picture of hin in his...
Private Joe Walker II
For my second portrait today I had another go at Joe Walker. This actually my third attempt. I tried using the same source photo as first time...
ARP Warden William Hodges
Up nice and early today and, with the chess not needing too much work today, I think I have time for two portraits. First up is Hodges, played by...
Privates Charles Godfrey And Frank Pike
Again only time for one portrait but today it's a double. Godfrey was played by Arnold Ridley and Pike by Ian Lavender. Arnold and Ian were the...
Lance Corporal Jack Jones
Only time for one more portrait today and it's Lance Corporal Jack Jones, played by Clive Dunn. I picked out this portrait because of all...
Maurice Yeatman And The Reverend Timothy Farthing
Next up it's the verger and the vicar, played by Edward Sinclair and Frank Williams respectively. Maybe not who people were expecting but two much...
Private Joe Walker
Next up is Private Joe Walker, played by James Beck, one of my favourite two characters in this TV show. What I liked about the source photo was...
Sergeant Arthur Wilson
I was away for a few days for a wedding in Leeds last weekend and just started playing in a correspondence chess tournament. With too much brain...
United Underworld
And here's the United Underworld collection all together. Catwoman maybe looks a little weak but, being drawn at a different distance and with her...
Catwoman
Gosh! And the Catwoman too! The four of them, their forces combined…why, the sum of the angels in that rectangle is too monstrous to...
The Joker
The Joker! Woi if only Oi had a nickel for every time he's foxed us! Yes, third up it's The Joker, played by Cesar Romero. I decided overnight...
The Riddler
The Riddler! Back to plague us with his criminal conundrums! Next up in the United Underworld collection is The Riddler, played by Frank Gorshin....
The Penguin
The Penguin! Pompous waddling master of foul play, maestro of a million ubiquitous umbrellas! We're off on another collection of marker portraits...
Heeeere’s Jonny
I’ve had an idea for another set of marker portraits to get started on but had just one page left in a sketchbook and didn't want the set to...
An England XI
So now I have a complete England XI. Properly balanced too: two opening batsmen, a wicket keeper and a five man bowling attack that includes two...
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...