Category: Portraits

Private Joe Walker

Next up is Private Joe Walker, played by James Beck, one of my favourite two characters in this TV show.  What I liked about the source photo was...

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Sergeant Arthur Wilson

I was away for a few days for a wedding in Leeds last weekend and just started playing in a correspondence chess tournament.  With too much brain...

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Disapproval From Mount Rushmore

Another watercolour today.  I wanted to have another go with the desert supergranulators supplemented with cool blues after they worked out so well...

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Doctor Vivian Crellin 1925—2020

Sometimes somebody just springs to mind whose portrait I want to paint and everything else has to be put to one side while I work on this sudden...

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United Underworld

And here's the United Underworld collection all together. Catwoman maybe looks a little weak but, being drawn at a different distance and with her...

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Catwoman

Gosh!  And the Catwoman too!  The four of them, their forces combined…why, the sum of the angels in that rectangle is too monstrous to...

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The Joker

The Joker!  Woi if only Oi had a nickel for every time he's foxed us! Yes, third up it's The Joker, played by Cesar Romero.  I decided overnight...

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The Riddler

The Riddler!  Back to plague us with his criminal conundrums! Next up in the United Underworld collection is The Riddler, played by Frank Gorshin....

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The Penguin

The Penguin!  Pompous waddling master of foul play, maestro of a million ubiquitous umbrellas! We're off on another collection of marker portraits...

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Heeeere’s Jonny

I’ve had an idea for another set of marker portraits to get started on but had just one page left in a sketchbook and didn't want the set to...

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Duane Allman

I've been tearing through the artwork this week and thought I'd take a break, so spent most of the day out in the studio catching up on the novel...

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I Can Read Your Mind

So I had the first chance in a while to do some undisturbed painting in the studio.  Well I say that but in reality I only started at 2pm and had...

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Looking At You

So here it is.  I've finally gotten around to using the second of the shelves I helped myself to when the in laws threw out that old fridge.  The...

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Jerry Garcia

I had a chance to do some painting today, so thought I'd better take it.  This was painted in the garden, but the original drawing went down at my...

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An England XI

So now I have a complete England XI.  Properly balanced too: two opening batsmen, a wicket keeper and a five man bowling attack that includes two...

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Mike Brearley

Another cricket portrait has been long overdue and I've finally come up with one.  I wanted my cricket portraits to make up a balanced England XI...

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Pulp Fiction

I have a day's respite today from preparing for the art studio and thought I'd better dust off some cobwebs and get back to my artwork.  After...

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The YouTube Six

And here are the YouTube six in their full glory.  Somehow Lee's ugly arms and Liron's cartoony smile are no longer a problem.  These six guys just...

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Liron Yanconsky

  Hey, what's up, it's the Artistic Actuary here.   After portraits of a music reactor, a mathy, a physicist, a chess nut boasting in an open foyer...

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