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...
Category: Portraits
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
Jerry Garcia And Bob Weir, Copenhagen 1972
With all this coloured pencil jamming I've been doing lately, I've been playing a lot of Grateful Dead. YouTube has obviously gotten wind of this,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...