Sometimes somebody just springs to mind whose portrait I want to paint and everything else has to be put to one side while I work on this sudden...
Other Subject Matter
Warming Up With Collibrina
I was going through my folders of watercolour paintings yesterday, tidying them up ready for an art and craft fair later this month. And I found...
United Underworld
And here's the United Underworld collection all together. Catwoman maybe looks a little weak but, being drawn at a different distance and with her...
Catwoman
Gosh! And the Catwoman too! The four of them, their forces combined…why, the sum of the angels in that rectangle is too monstrous to...
The Joker
The Joker! Woi if only Oi had a nickel for every time he's foxed us! Yes, third up it's The Joker, played by Cesar Romero. I decided overnight...
The Riddler
The Riddler! Back to plague us with his criminal conundrums! Next up in the United Underworld collection is The Riddler, played by Frank Gorshin....
The Penguin
The Penguin! Pompous waddling master of foul play, maestro of a million ubiquitous umbrellas! We're off on another collection of marker portraits...
Heeeere’s Jonny
I’ve had an idea for another set of marker portraits to get started on but had just one page left in a sketchbook and didn't want the set to...
The Good, The Bad And The Ugly: The Collection
And here they are, all together. As I expected, their positives as a set are greater than the sum of their individual positives. They're up for...
Il Brutto
So here's part 3 of 3 and that's the collection complete. Tuco followed the same methodology as the previous two paintings so, what I did (and I'm...
Il Cattivo
Number two in my The Good, The Bad And The Ugly collection is Angel Eyes, the bad one, played by Lee Van Cleef. In allocating supergranulating...
Il Buono
It's been more than a year since I painted a scene from a Western and I'm returning to that subject big time with a set of three paintings based on...
Jerry Garcia And Bob Weir, Copenhagen 1972
With all this coloured pencil jamming I've been doing lately, I've been playing a lot of Grateful Dead. YouTube has obviously gotten wind of this,...
VNixie
I'm taking it a bit easy today, just going for a quick figure painting with the inktense pencils. I swear I must take almost as long choosing a...
Duane Allman
I've been tearing through the artwork this week and thought I'd take a break, so spent most of the day out in the studio catching up on the novel...
I Can Read Your Mind
So I had the first chance in a while to do some undisturbed painting in the studio. Well I say that but in reality I only started at 2pm and had...
Jennifer Evie
I wasn’t in the mood for a long day of painting today, so decided to have another go at a figure drawing with the inktense pencils while the...
Looking At You
So here it is. I've finally gotten around to using the second of the shelves I helped myself to when the in laws threw out that old fridge. The...
Daniella Taking A Break
So, yeah, tonight was the night to christen the art studio. But, what with one thing and another, it wasn't until about 7pm that I finally got the...
Rejection
The news just came through. After not making it to Portrait Artist Of The Year or into a pod on Landscape Artist Of The Year, I've completed the...