Portraits

The Black Hills

I've had twelve paintings up on the wall of the restaurant at the Rose & Crown for a while now. Occasionally the odd one is sold but the owners...

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Hedy Lamarr

Today's painting is a portrait of the actress Hedy Lamarr. I saw a photo of her and the highlights and shadows were just screaming out to be...

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The Wrong Kind Of Snow

After all that fun yesterday with the tundra supergranulators, I was ready to give them another go today, with another snowy mountain scene but one...

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Police Chief Clancy O’Hara

My plan today was to give the potters' pink a good workout and, in particular, to use some of the more interesting mixes it makes with some of the ...

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Doctor Zaius

It was always going to happen. Today's subject is Doctor Zaius from the Planet Of The Apes TV series, played by Booth Colman. After painting Galen...

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Galen

Time for an Artgraf painting today. There's a portrait that I did of Duane Allman two years go today where I wondered whether I should have stopped...

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The Cage

Not a long afternoon for me today, so I went for a quick portrait with the crystalline watercolours. The subject today is Susan Oliver playing...

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Gravitational Waves

I've done a few patchwork portraits in the past. These are where I come up with a two value plan for a portrait, mask out the whites and then...

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Three Ball Charlie

This is my first painting for eleven days. It started off as a break of a few days but then I entered a correspondence chess tournament, started...

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This Is Not My Sandwich

I've not done enough portraits lately and thought I'd work my way back in gently with the crystalline watercolours. This is Catherine Tate as the...

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Oscar Wilde

Back into proper painting action today and it's a watercolour portrait. Someone put up an Oscar Wilde quote the other day on LinkedIn next to a...

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Sean Connery

I’ve been feeling pretty grot this week and I know from experience that if I paint when I don't feel like painting I'm not going to come up with...

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Sir Roger Moore

I thought I'd have another go at Sir Roger Moore today. He's one of a number of people that I feel I owe a portrait after having had a go once and...

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Great Gig In The Sky: Sam Brown

I’m still on Great Gig In The Sky from the Pink Floyd Pulse concert. Today it's the first of the three female vocalists on that track, Sam Brown....

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Spectre Of The Gun

The idea for this one came to me last night. I was googling around, looking at reviews of some forthcoming Star Trek episodes and found this still...

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Eric Morecambe

It's a portrait of Eric Morecambe today in crystalline watercolours. I put down a pencil drawing last night, dividing Eric up into highlights, mid...

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