I’m back in action today. The chess is still keeping me busy and it wasn't until 7.30pm that I finished this one but I was determined to come up...
6. Recurring Themes/Styles
A Trip To The National Portrait Gallery
I took the day off today to head to London and to potter around the National Portrait Gallery. It's all very well keeping busy in retirement,...
The New YouTube Six
And here is the complete collection, made up of: Liz Chaderton Ben Askins, The Working Week Pete Green, Greeno Eats Dan Rourke,...
Gary Hanna, Gary Eats
Here I am, out in the studio on a chilly morning. What am I doing here? Well I'm here to paint the last member of the New YouTube Six. It's Gary...
Jon Jefferson, Auto Shenanigans
Hello and welcome The Artistic Actuary. How the devil are you? Have you had a good week? My name is <redcacted>. Thank you very much for...
Liz Chaderton
Time for another marker portrait of a YouTuber and today it's professional artist and author Liz Chaderton. Her YouTube channel can be found here...
Dan Rourke, SciManDan
What happens when one of the biggest artists on the internet takes on the most feared of flat Earth debunkers? Well, you're about to find out. ...
Pete Green, Greeno Eats
Right then folks. Artistic Actuary here. Now where am I today? I'm out in the studio, specifically at the desk where I do my painting. Why am I...
Ben Askins, The Working Week
I'm in the the mood for another collection of marker portraits, so let's go. This is going to be a set of portraits of another six YouTube...
Buddy Guy: Damn Right I’ve Got The Blues
Today's painting is a portrait of guitarist Buddy Guy, based on the cover of his Damn Right I've Got The Blues album (Amazon link here: as an...
Sir Winston Churchill
Time for a long, drawn out coloured pencil painting. I started this one on the Thursday, left it for a day, and finished on the Saturday. The...
Then Came The Churches, Then Came The Schools
Another watercolour today and, for the first time in ages, it's not posterised. After doing some YouTubing, I was in the mood to put down a...
Lindsey Buckingham And Stevie Nicks
I saw the other day that the Buckingham Nicks album had been rereleased. This is the album that Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks recorded...
Joe Bugner
After a long five day break I'm back in the studio again. I felt in the mood for crystalline watercolours and had already identified a photo of...
See The Winter, Taste The Snow, Feel The Cold, Hear The Wind, Smell The Reindeer
And here they are together: See The Winter, Taste The Snow, Feel The Cold and Hear The Wind, Smell The Reindeer. I couldn't decide whether to have...
Hear The Wind, Smell The Reindeer
And here's the other half of the diptych. The drawings on the back are Hear The Wind and Smell The Reindeer. This one was painted in parallel...
See The Winter, Taste The Snow, Feel The Cold
And here we are at stage 2 of the big project. After I Am The Eye In The Sky was such a big success almost five years ago on a glass fridge shelf...
Smell The Reindeer
And finally we have the fifth sense: smell. With room for a second drawing on my third sheet of paper, I ended up having two attempts at the...
See The Winter
Day four of the big September project and it's been a fast one. This is a charcoal drawing of my right eye. I expected the eye to be the most...
Feel The Cold
Here's the third of my senses. It's my hand, signifying touch. Like all the other senses, this is in charcoal. Most of it is with charcoal...