Category: Other Subject Matter

Amy Winehouse

I heard some of the late Amy Winehouse's music the other day.  I'm guessing it must have been a question on either Only Connect or University...

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Ginger

A late start today because I've been reading Daniella Brambilla's book on figure drawing (review coming soon).  Daniella did, though, give me an...

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Nurse Mildred Ratched

This is Nurse Ratched, famously played by Louise Fletcher in One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest in a performance that won her the Best Actress Oscar...

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Warren Haynes In Watercolour

The closing date for Portrait Artist Of The Year is on 5 February, ten days away.  I've already submitted my entry but this is the time of her when...

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Ronnie Wood

After John Lydon went so well the other day, I thought I'd have another go with the oil pastels.  And because John came out looking old and battle...

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John Lydon In Oil Pastel

It was a tough call over who to paint today.  ChatGPT wasn't able to come up with any celebrities I'd ever heard of whose birthday it was today....

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Nevermore

Today would have been Edgar Allen Poe's 215th birthday.  I know this because I asked ChatGPT to name me a random celebrity born in January 19th....

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The Dragons Den Collection

And here it is: the complete collection of dragons. As expected, the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.  These look great and the...

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Aaaaagggggghhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!

Don't tell me that you didn't see this one coming.  On this week's Dragons Den there will be a sixth dragon and six is a much better number for a...

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Are You On TikTok?

And here's the fifth dragon in the den, Steven Bartlett. He's been given the flesh colour scheme, with the layers being putty, then soft peach,...

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Reyt Oop My Street

The next dragon on the seat is Sara Davies.  For a first layer I used bright orange, then henna, then cool grey 5.  I was looking for an...

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Touker Time!

Today's dragon is Touker Suleyman, a big favourite of mine. He's been given the grey colour scheme with cold grey 1, cold grey 4 and black.  The...

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Albert King

Today's painting is a long overdue subject and a less overdue experiment.  The subject is guitarist Albert King.  I've been making my way through...

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Fire

Today it's a portrait of Jimi Hendrix.  You can tell that I've used the Artist Assist App again just by looking at this one.  I was planning to do...

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Big Sam In Charcoal

This is one I've been planning for a while.  Ever since I read the Nathan Fowkes book, I've been meaning to do a charcoal portrait.  And as this...

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