Category: Other Subject Matter

Ben Talks Football

Portraits with markers always come in pairs.  After that Tommy Cooper effort, I wasn't feeling confident enough to draw someone famous, so I headed...

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Tommy Cooper

I've not had the markers out for a while and it's raining outside, so I'm having a go at a couple of portraits today.  I'm not convinced by my last...

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Time

This run of village paintings is all very well but if I don't vary things around a bit, I'll settle into a rut and never get any better.  So I...

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Mandy

I've had a few days off and I really should get back to making the most of this break between jobs and doing some painting.  Today I planned five...

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Kevin, Annoyed

So after the disaster that was Brie In A Chair, I did another drawing straight away.  It's back to another old favourite, Kevin, who I've painted...

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Brie On A Chair

I'm taking a break from the watercolour for a day or two, so I've moved back to figure drawing with the inktense pencils today. First up is one of...

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Abstract Beginnings

Yesterday I kicked off an abstract painting.  I put on some masking tape and some directional masking fluid spatters.  Then laid on some nice thick...

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Cathy Jean

Back to the inktense pencils and figure drawing. All these different artistic styles and media are like spinning plates and if I don't keep...

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Richard Feynman

I had another read of my Charles Reid book last night (Painting By Design) and saw a couple of his videos  on YouTube this morning, so thought it...

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Moose On The Phoenix Trail

Reading that George Blacklock book during the week I started to think about how artists like Dali, Mageitte and Blacklock himself have common theme...

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Best Of The Wildcards

I wanted to push that Spider-Man drawing down the list and it's still another five days to the weekend, so I thought I'd do something different and...

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Elizabeth Olsen

I'm back onto putting my Avengers team together.  Next up is Elizabeth Olsen as the Scarlet Witch.  The Avengers aren't the Avengers without a...

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Tom Holland

Before I talk about this one, a big hello to anyone that's here for the first time after seeing my brief appearance on Landscape Artist Of The...

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Landscape Artist Of The Year

The program's over.  Nice that I got a big soundbite talking about how I was going to be painting on a map.  It's a shame that they only announced...

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Landscape Artist Of The Year

I'll be in this week's Landscape Artist Of The Year as a wildcard.  Sky Arts is free to view and is available via both Freeview and Freesat.  I...

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Becca And Daniel

Too much swatching, time for some artwork.  I wasn't feeling up to going the full watercolour today so decided to do my first bit of inktense...

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Colour Bugs

Now that the squad is selected, it's time to follow up that trial of the reds with a full scale workout for the new set of colours.  Rather than...

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Robert Downey Junior

My second and final portrait of the day.  It's another in the Avengers collection and it's Robert Downey Junior who played Iron Man. As Iron Man,...

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