Portraits

Doctor Julius No

Now that I've convinced myself these are my takes on Bond villains and not just portraits of the actors that played them, I feel liberated and am...

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Ernst Stavro Blofeld

These marker portraits always come in pairs, so here's another Bond villain - Donald Pleasence as Blofeld in You Only Live Twice. Ā Except that my...

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Auric Goldfinger

I might have only awarded that Emily Ball book one palette but it has got me mood to do some portraits and, in particular to try to get the gaze...

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El Bandito

Today's painting started off from a reference photo of Lee Van Cleef in The Good, The Bad And The Ugly Ā but I never could get any sort of likeness...

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Logical Right Eye

And so straight on to the right eye. Ā The same techniques as I used for the left eye. Ā Whereas with watercolours and to a lesser extent inktense...

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Artistic Left Eye

It seems the best way to learn how to use oil pastels is to watch videos on YouTube. Ā Today I watched Scrooge The Profit describing the rule of...

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Gregg Allman

There was no way I was going to stop at Cher, so I moved on to Gregg. Ā I wanted something that would contrast Cher's chiaroscuro against a coloured...

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Cher

Before I head back to watercolours tomorrow, I thought I really should give the marker pens a quick go. Ā So I googled for black and white celebrity...

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Sam Allardyce

I'm still in too much of a rush today. Ā After that Gareth Southgate disaster, I thought I'd move on to Big Sam. Ā At least I know from drawing him...

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Gareth Southgate

So the Euros have started and I'll be watching all three games today. Ā That's two good reasons for doing this inknse portrait of Gareth Southgate -...

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Annual Self Portrait 2021

As the drawing seems to be going well at the moment, what better time for a self portrait? Ā I've decided that I need to do a self portrait every...

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Ten Greatest Chess Players

Continuing to experiment, today I'm trying two new approaches with the new drawing technique: multiple portraits crammed together and combining...

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Jimi Hendrix

I have two watercolour blocks here, so straight after drawing Neil Young (and before painting him) I grabbed my other block and drew Jimi Hendrix....

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Neil Young

Dear oh dear. Ā After the successes of Duane and Big Sam, I felt confident enough to have a go at this style of drawing on watercolour paper and...

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Duane Allman & Sam Allardyce

I'm going to try out something new this morning. Ā I'm going to start with a Charles Reid style contour drawing. Ā He recommends starting from the...

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Ben Talks Football

Portraits with markers always come in pairs. Ā After that Tommy Cooper effort, I wasn't feeling confident enough to draw someone famous, so I headed...

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Tommy Cooper

I've not had the markers out for a while and it's raining outside, so I'm having a go at a couple of portraits today. Ā I'm not convinced by my last...

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Richard Feynman

I had another read of my Charles Reid book last night (Painting By Design) and saw a couple of his videos Ā on YouTube this morning, so thought it...

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Elizabeth Olsen

I'm back onto putting my Avengers team together. Ā Next up is Elizabeth Olsen as the Scarlet Witch. Ā The Avengers aren't the Avengers without a...

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Tom Holland

Before I talk about this one, a big hello to anyone that's here for the first time after seeing my brief appearance on Landscape Artist Of The...

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