Category: Actors

Bruce Frederickson

Next in the queue for meds at Nurse Ratched's booth is Bruce Frederickson, played by Vincent Schiavelli. He doesn't say or do much in the film but...

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Chief Bromden

I don't normally do this but I've done a third marker painting in a day. This is The Chief, played by Will Sampson. He seemed the character most...

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Martini

Fourth up is Martini (I can't find his first name) played by Danny DeVito. This film is just packed with names. I've done Martini in purple just...

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Billy Bibbit

Number three in the collection is Billy Bibbit, played by Brad Dourif. I've used the green marker here, reflecting Billy's innocence. Likeness...

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Max Taber

Next up is Max Taber, played by Christopher Lloyd. Probably the scariest of all the patients in the film, like an unexploded bomb. It was a no...

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Randle McMurphy

Another big collection of marker portraits on the way. This time it's eight patients from One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, one of the greatest...

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13 September 1999

After yesterday's news that I won't be wildcarding it at LAOTY and the arrival of two new Artgraf colours, today was always going to be an Artgraf...

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Doctor Zachary Smith

Sometimes I receive messages and I just have to act on them. I had the telly to myself last night and managed to find a 1960 episode of The...

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Purdey

I wanted to give some of my new inktense pencils a runout, so that's what I'm going today. Ā And with three of those new colours being fleshy...

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The Persuaders! Collection

And here they are together, The Persuaders! Ā Lord Brett Sinclair works better as one of a pair than he did on his own. What I find fascinating...

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Lord Brett Sinclair

And here's my second marker portrait of the day, Lord Brett Sinclair played by Sir Roger Moore. Just like Danny Wilde, he's in monotone greys but...

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Danny Wilde

I didn't know what I wanted to do today so asked my iPad for ideas. Ā It suggested that I do a portrait using markers. Ā If I do a portrait with the...

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A Clockwork Orange

Another watercolour today. Ā This is based on a publicity shot for A Clockwork Orange, a famous 1971 Stanley Kubrick film. Ā With the white face and...

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Cornelius

Ok so, as I said last time, I asked the spreadsheet on the iPad what to paint next it told me to paint a portrait using the Shire supergranulators...

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The Avengers 1965-67

And here they are together, Steed and Mrs Peel. Ā They go quite brilliantly together and are up for sale as a pair. Ā To see the price, click here.

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Mrs Emma Peel

It was always going to happen. Ā Steed needed a partner. Ā I decided to go for Mrs Peel, a character that was sure to make a great painting. After...

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Fleabag

A lot of my recent watercolour portraits seem to have been painted from a distance, including bodies, hands and things like that. Ā I wanted to go...

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The Man That Mildred Married

After a day off I was back today with the oil pastels. Ā For a subject I picked out comedy actor Brian Murphy. As usual I put down a pencil outline...

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