And here's the second and last drawing for today. Scaramanga and Nick Nack, played by Christopher Lee and Hervé Villechaize respectively in The...
Category: Other Subject Matter
Doctor Julius No
Now that I've convinced myself these are my takes on Bond villains and not just portraits of the actors that played them, I feel liberated and am...
Ernst Stavro Blofeld
These marker portraits always come in pairs, so here's another Bond villain - Donald Pleasence as Blofeld in You Only Live Twice. Except that my...
Auric Goldfinger
I might have only awarded that Emily Ball book one palette but it has got me mood to do some portraits and, in particular to try to get the gaze...
El Bandito
Today's painting started off from a reference photo of Lee Van Cleef in The Good, The Bad And The Ugly but I never could get any sort of likeness...
Ann And Rebecca On The Shiraz
With England poised to score an innings victory over India at Headingley, it was never going to be anything but the inktense pencils today. I'm...
Aubrey, Getting A Tan
The second and final inktense painting of the day is a third appearance for Aubrey. My plan with this one was to use a lot less colour and have a...
Mika M
Got to keep those plates spinning. Today I was painting with the inktense pencils. This is a new model for me, Mika M. For colours, I started...
My Left Foot
After painting The Graduate, I wanted to keep experimenting with the oil pastels. I've still not really worked out what I'll normally be painting...
The Graduate
It's been eleven days since my last piece of work but with the sun out and some chores out of the way, the gazebo's back up in the garden and I'm...
Logical Right Eye
And so straight on to the right eye. The same techniques as I used for the left eye. Whereas with watercolours and to a lesser extent inktense...
Artistic Left Eye
It seems the best way to learn how to use oil pastels is to watch videos on YouTube. Today I watched Scrooge The Profit describing the rule of...
Oil Pastel Testing
I learned a lesson from my first time using watercolours, markers and inktense pencils. And that lesson was not to attempt a masterpiece first...
A Desert Episode
In that last painting, Six Ways To Look At The Moon, I was so pleased with how the bottom left subpainting turned out that I thought I'd have a go...
Six Ways To Look At The Moon
I'm a bit short of ideas for watercolours at the moment. Maybe I need to wander around the village again but only if I'm prepared to put in some...
JenB, Sitting
It's absolutely roasting outside. I promise never again to claim it's too cold outside to paint. But this weather! Too hot, too sweaty and too...
Gregg Allman
There was no way I was going to stop at Cher, so I moved on to Gregg. I wanted something that would contrast Cher's chiaroscuro against a coloured...
Cher
Before I head back to watercolours tomorrow, I thought I really should give the marker pens a quick go. So I googled for black and white celebrity...
Gabrielle
More inktense figure drawing as promised. This is a new model for me: Gabrielle. For colours today, I used bark, baked earth, leaf green,...
Kristina Marie
It's been raining for a few days and there's a lot of wind predicted for tomorrow morning, so the gazebo's down and I'm not painting in the garden....