I noticed the other day that I'd still not used my black oil pastel. With watercolours, black's a pretty boring colour and a bad mixer. I can...
6. Recurring Themes/Styles
Annual Self Portrait 2022
It's time for the annual self portrait and after two years of inktense pencils, this year's portrait is in oil pastels. I have a long way to go...
KeiraG
I didn't want to go straight back to the oil pastels today. I had this feeling that if I did go for them I'd be impatient and rushed. Better to...
Ross Kemp
Wednesday night is Landscape Of The Year night. But just before LAOTY is a repeat of Portrait Artist Of The Year that I don't watch, having seen...
The Listener
My Dad's had a new kitchen fitted. When I dropped in to see him, I rescued a bunch of old kitchen shelves from a skip in the drive with the...
Ruby
I did say that Jean Haines had inspired me to go out and paint animals. And three days after the book was published, I've painted our cavalier...
The On The Buses Collection
And here's the complete collection. Mum does stand out a bit, to be honest, but remember that sixth portrait doubles up as Mum and Happy Harry. ...
Mabel Edith Butler
And here it is, the final piece in the On The Buses collection. It's Mum, played by the late Doris Hare. And, yes, I know, I've cheated here by...
Stan Butler
Number five in the On The Buses collection is Stan Butler, played by the late Reg Varney, equally famous for being the first person ever to use a...
Olive Rudge
Number four in the On The Buses collection is Olive, played by Anna Karen. Recognisable but not a great likeness. That's starting to become the...
Jack Harper
Number three in the On The Buses Collection is Jack Harper, played by the late Bob Grant. This one has taken a while as my black marker and the...
Cyril Blake
And today's second work is Cyril Blake, played by the late Stephen Lewis. I think we all know where this collection is going now, yeah? While...
Arthur Rudge
I almost made it through the whole of December without doing any artwork, which was a bit worrying. I thought I'd better get back to it before...
My Feet
And here's the last of the Bert Dodson exercise drawings that I'll be sharing. I think all he asked us to do was to make ourselves comfortable and...
Paul
Another exercise from the Bert Dodson book. I was tasked with drawing a portrait of someone with a head pointed downwards so that the face was a...
My Eyes
It's been a couple of years since I first read Keys To Drawing by Bert Dodson. My original plan was to attempt every single exercise in the book...
The Allman Brothers Band
An idea came in the night to me. It was to use inktense pencils to draw some sort of skyliney landscape but negatively, leaving trees and...
The Christ’s College Maths Fellows 1982-86 Collection
And here are the four of them together in all their glory. They feed off each other and the likenesses all improve when they're together. I feel...
Professor Peter Landshoff
It's time to start a new portrait collection. I was feeling a bit short of ideas and a bit out of form so thought I'd do portraits of the four...
Landscape Artist Of The Year 2022
I've entered Landscape Artist Of The Year again. For my main landscape submission, I chose Hartlip Church In The Snow. I was allowed to submit a...