Portraits

Under The Desk II

Look, I'm allowed to change my mind, OK?  Yesterday's portrait grew on me and Monday tends to be a short day, so I thought I'd continue with the...

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Under The Desk I

Applications for Portrait Artist Of The Year need to be in by the end of January, so I thought I'd better make a start on the 2024 self portrait...

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Chris Robinson

This is Chris Robinson, vocalist and occasional harmonica or guitar player in The Chris Robinson Brotherhood and The Black Crowes and master of dad...

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Roy Wood

With one page left in my rough watercolourpaper block and that page starting to come away at the edges, I wanted to do another watercolour today...

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Joe Strummer

    I'm back from the Upchurch art exhibition now and my studio's all back to normal.  I only sold the one painting, The Happiest Days Of Our Lives...

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The Corbomite Manouver Collection

And here they are, all together.  Spock, Kirk and Scotty.  None of them brilliant individual paintings but as a set of three I think they look...

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First Officer Spock

I know I said I might not end up completing the Corbomite Manouver Collection but after putting Kirk and Scotty alongside each other I could see...

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Mick Fleetwood

You know what?  I did end up finding a photo of Mick Fleetwood that would make a great portrait.  It was a pretty monochrome photo and was close to...

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Fame

I was feeling watercoloured out today and in the mood for a different medium, so went for the oil pastels.  I wanted to draw a portrait and was...

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Captain James Tiberius Kirk

Today I had a go at the second in The Corbomite Manouver collection.  Today it's Captain Kirk, painted using the Shire supergranulators, befitting...

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Chief Engineer Montgomery Scott

Sometimes great ideas come into my head on my daily walks.  Today was one of those days.  Earlier this year I put together The Good The Bad and the...

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Sir Bobby Charlton

Sorry everybody.  I screwed up today.  Rather than doing a fourth portrait in a row I should have switched back to painting planets.  I need to...

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John Lydon

I wasn’t planning on doing a watercolour today but I found a photo of John Lydon that was just begging to be painted in Liz Chaderton style.  In...

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B. B. King

Today's not a day for watercolours.  I tend to do watercolours in bursts of 2-4 successive days and with yesterday being a charcoal day and...

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Donald Trump

I took a break from the planets today.  A charcoal painting is long overdue and I thought I'd have a go at a charcoal portrait for the first time....

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Eric Clapton, 1970

I've had loads of chores to do Sunday and Monday, leaving only a couple sessions available for painting.  So I went for a coloured pencil portrait...

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Derwent Art Prize 2024

I've no idea how things will turn out but I've entered these two bad boys for the Derwent Art Prize 2024.  Entries have to be in pencil but that...

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Derek Trucks

I've painted a lot of guitarists over years in various different media but until now I've not gotten around to my favourite.  My favourite living...

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The Dads Army Collection

And here it is completed: The Dads Army Collection. From left to right, top to bottom: – Captain Mainwaring – Wilson – Jonesy – Godfrey and Pike –...

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