It's still too cold to be out painting, so I'm indoors with the coloured pencils again. And, to be honest, I could do with having more portraits...
Portraits
Moeen Ali, The Beard To Be Feared
I'm back to cricket player portraits today. After my disastrous Stuart Broad portrait, I'm having another attempt at a bowler who could bat for me...
Annual Self Portrait 2023
It's that time of year when a certain job comes up. It's time for the annual self portrait, something that I've been looking forward to for a...
Stuart Broad
I don't want to spend more time talking about this one than I have to, so let's get on with it. It's another cricketer portrait. I needed two...
Graham Thorpe
I've been in action with coloured pencils again. This one took me three days. It let me use some of the ideas that I picked up from the Karen...
William Shatner
It's been a long time since my last post but I've finally got to a day with no Christmas shopping, university pickups or doctor/dentist/optician...
Nasser Hussain
More cricket portraiture with the markers today. I'm going to continue with cricket portraits until I have a complete balanced team together, or...
Adil Rashid
My third successive cricket portrait and they've all been in different media. Today it's the first outing for markers since last winter. I picked...
Jos Buttler
Look, I'm still in the mood for cricket portraits and with England due to play Pakistan in the World T20 Final on Sunday morning, I thought I'd...
Sir Ian Botham
I've been watching more Liz Chaderton videos on YouTube. She's been busy with portraits throughout November and there was one yesterday where she...
Neil McCarthy
Neil McCarthy (1932-1985) was one of those actors everyone recognises but whose name nobody knows. I saw him in an episode of Some Mothers Do 'Ave...
David Bowie
In the mood for a coloured pencil drawing today, so looked at the CD collection and decided to go for Bowie. The CD collection is pretty good...
Neil Young In Coloured Pencil
I've had a couple of days off doing a bit of retirement planning but am back on the painting again now. After discovering how my figure drawing...
David Gilmour
Back on the coloured pencils and I thought I'd try doing a portrait of David Gilmour. I tried something different today: as well as using a grid,...
Paul Shane
I've had my eye in the late Paul Shane for a while. In particular the Paul Shane who turned up on Pebble Mill that time to sing You've Lost That...
Big Sam In Coloured Pencil
I still have loads of new art gear to try out, so no dash and splash for me today. It’s time to give the coloured pencils a first outing. For...
Shaun Williamson
I've been planning to go on a trip to the seaside for four days now and for four days I've been put off by either the weather or M2 closures. On...
Shaun Wallace, The Dark Destroyer
In yesterday's Bob Willis portrait, I felt a bit frustrated at how difficult it was to get a likeness using oil pastels when the face was so small....
Bob Willis
Look, I'll make this quick today. I was in the mood to draw a portrait and decided to go for an oil pastel of the late Bob Willis. I started...
James Anderson
I was in the mood to do another oil pastel portrait today and I picked a source photo of James Anderson, the third highest wicket taking test...