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Thea 6

A first go with charcoal this year. Today's subject is Thea, making her sixth appearance, hence the unimaginative name of this one. I was shocked,...

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Meghan Parnell

I've been feeling portrait withdrawal symptoms, so I'm back to what I enjoy most today. This is Meghan Parnell, vocalist in Bywater Call. According...

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I Don’t Live Today

Mondays are always busy for me and I wasn't planning on doing a painting. But with three days of chess coming up, I thought I should prepare...

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Pieces

I'm addicted to the chess at the moment and it's come through in a couple of ways in today's painting. First there's the subject matter and the...

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Smile You Son Of A Bitch

It's a rest day in the FIDE masters and, with no chess to watch, I've been 100% focused on painting. Today's subject is Roy Scheider starring as...

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Got The Rain In My Face

The FIDE Candidates tournament is on at the moment and I'm already addicted after three of the fourteen rounds. So I'm watching the chess all...

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Sean Lock

Today I've been painting a portrait of the late Sean Lock. It's a posterised painting using the trippy colour scheme and following my usual process...

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Country Home Guitar Solo

The coloured pencils have taken a back seat for a while now, so time to give them an opportunity to do their stuff. I was watching a YouTube video...

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JenB Eyeing Rogue Spot

Up late today and the League Cup Final's on later but I did have the time for another figure painting with the inktense pencils. Today's model is...

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Paul Merson

I started off intending to keep pressing my case for PAOTY but halfway through this one got the rejection email. It will be at least another year...

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Big Ron Atkinson

Got or keep going with these posterised portraits. Twelve days to go before the PAOTY lineup is announced. Looking through my waiting list of...

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Isabella

At the time of writing, it looks like it's been six days since my last painting but looks can be deceptive. Because I was busy with another...

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Hovis Hill In The Snow

After two posterised watercolour portraits this week, I took a break today from Artist Of The Year promotions to do something different. I was...

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Rik Mayall

Keeping going with the posterised portraits. Today's subject is the late Rik Mayall playing Squadron Commander Lord Flasheart in Blackadder Goes...

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Mr. Wint And Mr. Kidd

Diamonds Are Forever was on the telly the other night and inspired me into painting a portrait of nefarious duo Mr. Wint (left, played by Bruce...

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Karen Of Mountbatten-Windsorius

Back to posterised watercolour portraits today. I fancied trying to reproduce the outer spacey look of Miles Davis, so hunted around for a Star...

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And It Makes Me Wonder

Looks like I'm taking a break from LAOTY and PAOTY prep this week then because today I fancied giving the crystalline water colours their first...

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Raven S In Coloured Pencil

As expected, after Wednesday's effort, I had to come up with a coloured pencil figure today. Today's model is Raven S, someone who worked out well...

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