Category: Portraits

Three Famous Gunslingers

<Edit: The day after I painted and posted this one I found that I'd screwed up.  The guy on the right is Frank James, not Virgil Earp.  That...

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Alan Shearer

  Lots of stuff going on at the moment so I thought I'd be better off just going for a quick inktense pencil painting today and give the sepia...

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Ally MacLeod

A grim day today with a power cut in the morning and then no WiFi when the power came back on so I'm grabbing a sneaky coffee in Costa while I...

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Purdey

I wanted to give some of my new inktense pencils a runout, so that's what I'm going today.  And with three of those new colours being fleshy...

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The Persuaders! Collection

And here they are together, The Persuaders!  Lord Brett Sinclair works better as one of a pair than he did on his own. I'd start with The...

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Lord Brett Sinclair

And here's my second marker portrait of the day, Lord Brett Sinclair played by Sir Roger Moore. Just like Danny Wilde, he's in monotone greys but...

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Danny Wilde

I didn't know what I wanted to do today so asked my iPad for ideas.  It suggested that I do a portrait using markers.  If I do a portrait with the...

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Joe Walsh

Today's painting is a portrait of Joe Walsh of The Eagles, someone who in his heyday was probably even more fun at parties than Frank Bough....

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Frank Bough

Of all the celebrities ever to have been disgraced after being caught in a tabloid sting, Frank Bough is the most likely to raise a smile and the...

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Brian Clough’s Finger

I thought I'd have a go at painting Brian Clough today.  It was always going to happen at some point.  I had a choice between source photos and...

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A Clockwork Orange

Another watercolour today.  This is based on a publicity shot for A Clockwork Orange, a famous 1971 Stanley Kubrick film.  With the white face and...

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Cornelius

Ok so, as I said last time, I asked the spreadsheet on the iPad what to paint next it told me to paint a portrait using the Shire supergranulators...

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The Avengers 1965-67

And here they are together, Steed and Mrs Peel.  They go quite brilliantly together and are up for sale as a pair.

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Mrs Emma Peel

It was always going to happen.  Steed needed a partner.  I decided to go for Mrs Peel, a character that was sure to make a great painting. After...

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Hale And Pace

Today I've been painting Hale and Pace, a comedy double act from the 1980s and 90s.  Sometimes you see a photo and you just have to turn it into a...

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Fleabag

A lot of my recent watercolour portraits seem to have been painted from a distance, including bodies, hands and things like that.  I wanted to go...

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Three-One!

Something about that Joe Jordan painting yesterday put me in a nostalgic mood and wanting to keep going back to the 1978 World Cup.  And the...

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Joe Jordan

Today I have been mostly painting a portrait of Joe Jordan.  As he's wearing a Scotland shirt it seemed appropriate to paint this one with three...

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Paul With Markers

I've been out most of the day but came back to see some Facebook banter from old Christ's boy Paul wondering whether he could get me to send him...

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