After a pencil drawing and a painting yesterday, today it's time to give those inktense pencils a runout. And to have a proper go at some figure...
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The Frankenstein-Dracula Variation
After reading Painting By Design by Charles Reid, I felt ready to attempt my first watercolour portrait. It started off as the world chess...
The Trio
This one has been brewing for a month or so and I've now got it out of my system after buying some decent paper for pencil drawing (and possibly...
The Happiest Days Of Our Lives
Today's painting is dedicated to the recently departed Sir Alan Parker, who directed (as well as many other films) The Wall, a film featuring all...
Landscape Artist Of The Year 2021
I've had an amazing day today as a wildcard at Landscape Artist of The Year at a mystery location. The first couple of hours painting were quite...
All Roads Lead To Lady Churchill’s Rose Garden
This post was written on 30 July 2020 but is only being released now that the program has aired. Now, this is more like it. Not that I was ever...
Lady Churchill’s Rose Garden, Chartwell
This post was written on 30 July 2020 but is only being released now that the program has aired. I've had an amazing day today as a wildcard at...
Stephen Hawking Reading The Guardian
Ok. Time to try out the inktense pencils properly. I had two gos at doing a painting of a young Stephen Hawking reading The Guardian. The idea...
And I’m Thumper!
Today's subject is Thumper from Diamonds Are Forever, played by actress Trina Parks. In this shot, Trina adopts what must be one of the greatest...
(Two Of) The Hateful Eight
I thought it was about time I went back to my most popular series of paintings, the abstractified Westerns. Today, I found a still from The...
Marker Portraits Poll Results
So here are the results of my latest poll. Only a handful of surprises there. Bernardine Evaristo did better than I expected, James Coburn and...
The Magnificent Seven Collection, Framed
All framed now and ready to go in the post. Looking good, I must say. They've been given to my given to my father as a combined fathers day/77th...
Eli Wallach
Today on Portrait Artist Of The Week It was Clare Balding. I didn’t rate my chances of doing Clare justice so I've instead headed back to The...
And Introducing Horst Buchholz
And here's the last one in the set. It's Horst Buchholz as Chico. I'm not sure he's instantly recognisable unless you're looking at all seven...
The Hidden Gorilla
I've finished the experimental painting that I started on Thursday. I’ve added more watercolour. This again is mainly Prussian blue, Indian...
Yul Brynner
One more member of the Magnificent Seven. It's Yul Brynner as Chris Adams. I would say he's the coolest of the seven but I think Britt (James...
Steve McQueen
Back to the Magnificent Seven and it's Steve McQueen as Vin Tanner. I really struggled to get. a likeness, so thought I'd have some fun with...
Noel Fielding
When I heard in Friday that Noel Fielding was going to be this week's model for Portrait Artist Of The Week, I knew I had to have a go. Not...
Robert Vaughn
I take it back. It's Robert Vaughn, not Steve McQueen that's hardest to draw. I did a lot of drawing and rubbing out before ending with this...
Charles Bronson
I was late out of bed this morning and it looked a bit too hot outside so I'm back to drawing with markers this morning. I'm back to the...