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...
Mark Hector, Brain Squeeze Reactions
After reading the Bill Maughan book, I was keen to get started on some chiariscuro portraits but thought I'd start with markers rather than the...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
Graham Thorpe
I've been in action with coloured pencils again. This one took me three days. It let me use some of the ideas that I picked up from the Karen...
Critiqued By Liron Yanconsky!
Today I was honoured to have my work critiqued on YouTube by Liron Yanconsky, an artist that I hugely admire. The link...
‘Andles For Forks
And here's today's second painting. It's Candle as the model again and this is her fourth appearance. This time it's my second attempt at using...
Candle In Oil Pastel
I'm not in the mood at the moment to take my time and come up with perfect paintings. I'm feeling loose and energetic and wanting to rattle off...
First Go With The Artgraf Colours: Candle
I wanted to have a quick go with the Artgraf colours today: see what they were like. I thought I'd start with some figure drawing, so chose a pose...
William Shatner
It's been a long time since my last post but I've finally got to a day with no Christmas shopping, university pickups or doctor/dentist/optician...
Nasser Hussain
More cricket portraiture with the markers today. I'm going to continue with cricket portraits until I have a complete balanced team together, or...
Adil Rashid
My third successive cricket portrait and they've all been in different media. Today it's the first outing for markers since last winter. I picked...