Category: Other Subject Matter

Ian Nepomniachtchi

Next up is joint tournament leader Ian Nepomniachtchi, generally referred to as Nepo, although I don't know whether people call him that to his...

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Kirill Alekseenko

Being stuck inside all day, I don't see much hope for doing many watercolours for a while.  And with me actually having a piece of work on a the...

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Two Self Portraits

All these portraits I've been rattling out with markers and I only just realised that I've not done any self portraits with the markers yet.  Time...

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Cathy

I've fallen into a trap.  Now everybody wants me to draw their portrait on their birthday.  This weekend it was Cathy's birthday and this is my...

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Lizzie

It's also Lizzie's birthday today, so here's another portrait.  I think this is more recognisably Lizzie than Amanda was Amanda.  You can see from...

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Amanda

I'm quite getting into this portrait drawing with markers, although I still have a long way to go before I can call myself anything near...

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Clive

Another portrait.  This is Clive the bantering butcher from the local farmshop at MB Farms (http://www.mbfarms.co.uk/index.html) in Stockbury,...

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Jimbo

More Tuesday portraiture and it's another bassist and Facebook friend.  This is Jimbo, a mate from school, bassist with grungy rock duo Matildaz...

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Roy With A Beard

It's Tuesday and Sky Portrait Artist Of The Year is on later, so I was in the mood for a bit of portraiture.  Obviously using markers.  I'm nowhere...

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Nathan In Colour

My first exercise with these new markers was to trace out the picture I'd drawn of Nathan  a couple of  months ago and apply a bit of colour to it....

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Nathan

This is the result of one of the exercises in Keys To Drawing by Bert Dodson.  It's a portrait of one of my kids in the style of Henri Matisse.  I...

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Father And Son

That review of Drawing On The Right Side Of The Brain is coming soon, I promise!

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DNA

And here's the second of the day.  This is all out abstract.  I cracklepasted a board a couple of days ago (with watercolour ground applied to the...

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Bramble’s

Today's job was to prepare a couple of experimental crackle paste surfaces to use later in the week but I found myself pining to do some painting,...

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Now What Are You Barking At?

And here's my latest Jane Betteridge inspired painting on an unusual surface.  It's my first go using crackle paste.  I bought an acrylic canvas...

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Mount Rushmore

Now this is more like it!  A painting on an experimental surface that worked.  The faces were all torn out of the Mail On Sunday dated 11 August...

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Blue Skye

After reading that Jane Betteridge book, I thought it was time to start painting on some unusual surfaces.  First up was painting on a map.  I...

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