Category: Other Subject Matter

Six More PAOTY Rejections

Ok, if you insist, here are another six portraits that didn't get their artists onto Portrait Artist Of The Year.  There's not just talent on...

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PAOTY Rejections

I'm finally getting an art studio built in the garden in May but for this to happen, I have until 10 April to prepare the site for it by...

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David

I'm conscious that my output with the Artgraf blocks has been a bit low so far and that I've not really yet worked out how to use them, so with...

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Michael, Hot And Cold

After a couple of days off I'm back in action today.  But with a family do on tomorrow, I don't want to start a coloured pencil portrait and have...

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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...

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Liron Yanconsky

Hey, what's up, it's the Artistic Actuary here. After portraits of a music reactor, a mathy, a physicist, a chess nut boasting in an open foyer...

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Lee Davey, The MacMaster

Now then my friends, I am in the Kent village of Hartlip and I'm here to show you the fifth in my collection of marker portraits if YouTube...

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Parth G

Hi there.  My name is The Artistic Actuary and today I'm going to show you the third of my collection of six YouTube content creators. We've had a...

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Michael Penn

The second of my six YouTube subject areas is maths.  This is Michael Penn who does maths videos.  He seems to be a pure mathematician, into number...

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Artist Of The Year

I've submitted my entries for Landscape And Portrait Artist Of The Year. The PAOTY deadline has been and gone and the judges are currently looking...

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John Cleese

I had a premonition the other day.  Maybe it's all to do with new episodes of Fawlty Towers being created but I've convinced myself that John...

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Warren Haynes

I'm back to the coloured pencils today after a day off to check out potential garden art studios.  I just think I need a few more coloured pencil...

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Twelve Angry Men

I saw this film on the telly the other day.  Twelve Angry Men.  It was released in 1957 and is a masterpiece.  Twelve members of a jury debate a...

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David Suchet

It's still too cold to be out painting, so I'm indoors with the coloured pencils again.  And, to be honest, I could do with having more portraits...

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Moeen Ali, The Beard To Be Feared

I'm back to cricket player portraits today.  After my disastrous Stuart Broad portrait, I'm having another attempt at a bowler who could bat for me...

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Annual Self Portrait 2023

It's that time of year when a certain job comes up.  It's time for the annual self portrait, something that I've been looking forward to for a...

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Landscape Artist Of The Year

Just six days to go until episode 4 of this series of Landscape Artist Of The Year and my second appearance as a wildcard.    It's on Sky Arts,...

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Stuart Broad

I don't want to spend more time talking about this one than I have to, so let's get on with it.  It's another cricketer portrait.  I needed two...

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