Category: Portraits

Jimmy Carr

Ever since I used dot cards to come up with patchwork portraits of Salvador Dali, Roger Waters and Sir Geoff Hurst, I've been thinking about doing...

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Monty Panesar On Mastermind

Today's idea came from a YouTube video over breakfast the other day. It was a video of the ten most embarrassing celebrity appearances on quiz...

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Complements Of The Seasons

And here's the complete collection. I started by thinking about colour schemes. I've painted collections of monotone paintings with a single...

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Henry Winter + Johnny Winter = Pi/2

And here's the final one in the collection. We have sports journalist Henry Winter and the late Johnny Winter. I've already done portraits using...

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Autumn Reeser In Red And Green

Next up is Autumn Reeser. She's an American actress but I have to be honest here and admit to never having heard of her before now. According to...

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Donna Summer In Blue And Orange

Next up in this collection is (maybe not a surprise to some) Donna Summer. I've painted her in blue and orange. Once again I've kind of got a...

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Les Dawson

After almost a week off, I'm back to painting today. After seeing how the M Graham landscape colours resulting quite restrained, grown up...

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Could It Be Magic?

Today I quite fancied putting dry pigment down on the paper and wetting it. I'd already picked out a photo of Barry Manilow that might look good...

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Sir Geoff Hurst

I had to order a load of paints and paper from Jackson’s the other day and was delighted to see another dot card thrown in as. Free extra. This...

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Angus Young

Oh dear, this hasn’t been a great start to September. I wanted to give the fineliners another runout. To encourage myself to be looser with the...

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Jesse Woodson James

For my first painting using the NeoLucida XL, I picked out a photo of Jesse James. I thought it would be a gentle way to make myself familiar with...

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Stevie Ray Vaughan

Ok, so I've painted Devon Allman, Duane Allman, Eric Clapton, Allen Collins, Jerry Garcia, Billy Gibbons, David Gilmour, Warren Haynes. Jimi...

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Mel Smith

Look, I'll make this quick today. Hartlip has been cut off from the internet, so I'm at Medway Services typing this up and quite fancy getting home...

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And, By The Way, Which One Is Pink?

With there still being a bit of paint left on the Schmincke dot card, I thought I'd have another go at an abstract portrait rather than leave it...

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Ilad Rodavlas

And here's the companion piece to Salvador Dali, painted in parallel. It follows pretty well the same method, the only three differences being...

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Salvador Dali

So here's what I did with that Schmincke dot card. I quite fancied doing a portrait, so looked around for a simple portrait of a colourful...

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Freebird!

This one's been coming for a while. It's a portrait of Allen Collins and Gary Rossington, two of the founder members of Lynyrd Skynyrd and I'm...

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Mighty Mouse

Yesterday's painting was bad, very bad. I just had to come back and have another go at Kevin Keegan, acting on some of the lessons I'd learned...

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Kevin Keegan

Back for another go with the crystalline watercolour and today it's my first go at using them for a portrait. Today's subject is the legend that...

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