Portraits

Bruce Frederickson

Next in the queue for meds at Nurse Ratched's booth is Bruce Frederickson, played by Vincent Schiavelli. He doesn't say or do much in the film but...

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Chief Bromden

I don't normally do this but I've done a third marker painting in a day. This is The Chief, played by Will Sampson. He seemed the character most...

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Martini

Fourth up is Martini (I can't find his first name) played by Danny DeVito. This film is just packed with names. I've done Martini in purple just...

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Billy Bibbit

Number three in the collection is Billy Bibbit, played by Brad Dourif. I've used the green marker here, reflecting Billy's innocence. Likeness...

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Max Taber

Next up is Max Taber, played by Christopher Lloyd. Probably the scariest of all the patients in the film, like an unexploded bomb. It was a no...

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Randle McMurphy

Another big collection of marker portraits on the way. This time it's eight patients from One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, one of the greatest...

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13 September 1999

After yesterday's news that I won't be wildcarding it at LAOTY and the arrival of two new Artgraf colours, today was always going to be an Artgraf...

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Doctor Zachary Smith

Sometimes I receive messages and I just have to act on them. I had the telly to myself last night and managed to find a 1960 episode of The...

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Billy The Kid

I felt like doing a portrait today. I've been doing a lot of landscapes in an attempt to impress LAOTY judges (newsflash: I've not made it to a pod...

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Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin

There was a certain man in Russia long ago. He was big, he was strong, in his eyes a flaming glow. Most people looked at him with terror and with...

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The Earps

After discovering Friday's disaster I wanted to come up with a proper painting of The Earps as quickly as possible.  This was finished ar about...

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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. What I find fascinating...

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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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