Category: Markers

Doctor Julius No

Now that I've convinced myself these are my takes on Bond villains and not just portraits of the actors that played them, I feel liberated and am...

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Ernst Stavro Blofeld

These marker portraits always come in pairs, so here's another Bond villain - Donald Pleasence as Blofeld in You Only Live Twice.  Except that my...

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Auric Goldfinger

I might have only awarded that Emily Ball book one palette but it has got me mood to do some portraits and, in particular to try to get the gaze...

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Gregg Allman

There was no way I was going to stop at Cher, so I moved on to Gregg.  I wanted something that would contrast Cher's chiaroscuro against a coloured...

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Cher

Before I head back to watercolours tomorrow, I thought I really should give the marker pens a quick go.  So I googled for black and white celebrity...

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Ben Talks Football

Portraits with markers always come in pairs.  After that Tommy Cooper effort, I wasn't feeling confident enough to draw someone famous, so I headed...

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Tommy Cooper

I've not had the markers out for a while and it's raining outside, so I'm having a go at a couple of portraits today.  I'm not convinced by my last...

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Elizabeth Olsen

I'm back onto putting my Avengers team together.  Next up is Elizabeth Olsen as the Scarlet Witch.  The Avengers aren't the Avengers without a...

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Tom Holland

Before I talk about this one, a big hello to anyone that's here for the first time after seeing my brief appearance on Landscape Artist Of The...

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Robert Downey Junior

My second and final portrait of the day.  It's another in the Avengers collection and it's Robert Downey Junior who played Iron Man. As Iron Man,...

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Mark Ruffalo

After Chadwick Boseman came out so well just after after Christmas, I thought I'd build a team and use him as the first in a series of MCU Avengers...

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Chadwick Boseman

It's only 28th December but a new year's artwork kicks off here.  I wanted to have another go at a black and white portrait against a black...

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Charlie

The artwork is slowing down for a while now as I'm working on another actuarial contract during the week now.  But at the weekend, I'm back from...

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Dobbie

Too distraught after a bad experience with the inktense pencils, I thought I'd have another go at Dobbie but with the markers. This has come out...

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Samira Ahmed

We’re into lockdown and, with grass roots football missing from the calendar, my Sundays are no longer messed up and I can participate again in...

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Michael Clarke Duncan

Ok, so there was still time left in the day for a portrait with the markers.  The Daredevil film was on the telly the other day and I couldn't help...

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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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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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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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John Paul Jones

And here he is at last, John Paul Jones.  The only bassist to have ever given me any trouble (Geddy Lee, Jimbo and Roy are three of my greatest...

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