And here's the complete collection. Mum does stand out a bit, to be honest, but remember that sixth portrait doubles up as Mum and Happy Harry. ...
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Mabel Edith Butler
And here it is, the final piece in the On The Buses collection. It's Mum, played by the late Doris Hare. And, yes, I know, I've cheated here by...
Stan Butler
Number five in the On The Buses collection is Stan Butler, played by the late Reg Varney, equally famous for being the first person ever to use a...
Olive Rudge
Number four in the On The Buses collection is Olive, played by Anna Karen. Recognisable but not a great likeness. That's starting to become the...
Jack Harper
Number three in the On The Buses Collection is Jack Harper, played by the late Bob Grant. This one has taken a while as my black marker and the...
Cyril Blake
And today's second work is Cyril Blake, played by the late Stephen Lewis. I think we all know where this collection is going now, yeah? While...
Arthur Rudge
I almost made it through the whole of December without doing any artwork, which was a bit worrying. I thought I'd better get back to it before...
My Feet
And here's the last of the Bert Dodson exercise drawings that I'll be sharing. I think all he asked us to do was to make ourselves comfortable and...
Paul
Another exercise from the Bert Dodson book. I was tasked with drawing a portrait of someone with a head pointed downwards so that the face was a...
My Eyes
It's been a couple of years since I first read Keys To Drawing by Bert Dodson. My original plan was to attempt every single exercise in the book...
EvaE
More figure drawing. Today's model is EvaE, making her debut. I came in today with two objectives, both around reverting back to techniques that...
The Allman Brothers Band
An idea came in the night to me. It was to use inktense pencils to draw some sort of skyliney landscape but negatively, leaving trees and...
KylieB
I have a new model today. This is KylieB. I thought she looked cold in the source photo, so I thought I'd make the photo cold too and avoid all my...
The Christ’s College Maths Fellows 1982-86 Collection
And here are the four of them together in all their glory. They feed off each other and the likenesses all improve when they're together. I feel...
Professor Frank Kelly CBE FRS
Last up in the Christ's College Maths Fellows 1982-86 collection is Frank Kelly. He may have been lecturer for my course on Markov Chains: I'm...
Professor John Wilson
Allow me to present Professor John Stuart Wilson. Our first pure maths supervisor and the guy that dragged us all kicking and screaming from...
Doctor Richard Maunder
Second up in the Christ's Maths Fellows 1982-86 collection is Richard Maunder. This guy was an absolute legend. He was a pure mathematician, into...
Professor Peter Landshoff
It's time to start a new portrait collection. I was feeling a bit short of ideas and a bit out of form so thought I'd do portraits of the four...
The Return Of Thea
It's been sixteen days since my last bit of artwork. Sorry about that. I've been playing some correspondence chess, watching the T20 cricket and...
Katya
Ok, it's been a while but I'm back painting again today. I suspect that it's going to be too cold to paint outside until the Spring, so there...