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The Bond Villains Collection

And here's the full set in all its glory.  Rosa Klebb missed out to Hugo Drax in the final cut, as already revealed.  And the second Blofeld keeps...

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Hugo Drax

And here he is, a late substitute joins the team.  As Rosa Klebb limps off in disgrace, on comes Hugo Drax, played by Michael Lonsdale in...

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Rosa Klebb

I'm up early to finish off the Bond villains collection.  So here's Rosa Klebb, played by Lotte Lenya in From Russia With Love.  I'm a bit shocked...

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Emilio Largo

Next up in the Bond villain collection is Emelio Largo, aka Number Two (I believe).  He was played by Adolfo Celi in Thunderball. I picked a...

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Another Ernst Stavro Blofeld

Some new blue pearl markers arrived in the post last night.  Without these, I wasn't able to do any drawing yesterday as this colour so proving to...

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Oddjob

Ah, Oddjob.  Played by Harold Sakata in Goldfinger, he was always going to be in this collection once I'd moved on to henchmen. Once again, I...

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Zbigniew Krycsiwiki

First up today is Zbigniew Krycsikiki, aka Jaws.  My definition of Bond villains has extended to include henchmen.  Jaws was played by Richard Kiel...

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Francisco Scaramanga And Nick Nack

And here's the second and last drawing for today.  Scaramanga and Nick Nack, played by Christopher Lee and Hervé Villechaize respectively in The...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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