Another cricket portrait has been long overdue and I've finally come up with one. I wanted my cricket portraits to make up a balanced England XI...
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Moeen Ali, The Beard To Be Feared
I'm back to cricket player portraits today. After my disastrous Stuart Broad portrait, I'm having another attempt at a bowler who could bat for me...
Stuart Broad
I don't want to spend more time talking about this one than I have to, so let's get on with it. It's another cricketer portrait. I needed two...
Graham Thorpe
I've been in action with coloured pencils again. This one took me three days. It let me use some of the ideas that I picked up from the Karen...
Nasser Hussain
More cricket portraiture with the markers today. I'm going to continue with cricket portraits until I have a complete balanced team together, or...
Adil Rashid
My third successive cricket portrait and they've all been in different media. Today it's the first outing for markers since last winter. I picked...
Jos Buttler
Look, I'm still in the mood for cricket portraits and with England due to play Pakistan in the World T20 Final on Sunday morning, I thought I'd...
Sir Ian Botham
I've been watching more Liz Chaderton videos on YouTube. She's been busy with portraits throughout November and there was one yesterday where she...
Big Sam In Coloured Pencil
I still have loads of new art gear to try out, so no dash and splash for me today. It’s time to give the coloured pencils a first outing. For...
Bob Willis
Look, I'll make this quick today. I was in the mood to draw a portrait and decided to go for an oil pastel of the late Bob Willis. I started...
James Anderson
I was in the mood to do another oil pastel portrait today and I picked a source photo of James Anderson, the third highest wicket taking test...
Rory Burns
I noticed the other day that I'd still not used my black oil pastel. With watercolours, black's a pretty boring colour and a bad mixer. I can...
Oil Pastel Testing
I learned a lesson from my first time using watercolours, markers and inktense pencils. And that lesson was not to attempt a masterpiece first...
Sam Allardyce
I'm still in too much of a rush today. After that Gareth Southgate disaster, I thought I'd move on to Big Sam. At least I know from drawing him...
Gareth Southgate
So the Euros have started and I'll be watching all three games today. That's two good reasons for doing this inknse portrait of Gareth Southgate -...
Duane Allman & Sam Allardyce
I'm going to try out something new this morning. I'm going to start with a Charles Reid style contour drawing. He recommends starting from the...
Ben Talks Football
Portraits with markers always come in pairs. After that Tommy Cooper effort, I wasn't feeling confident enough to draw someone famous, so I headed...
Rob Key
It's been a good summer of test cricket. I was watching it yesterday and suddenly realised that Sky cricket pundit Rob key would make a great...
Mount Rushmore
Now this is more like it! A painting on an experimental surface that worked. The faces were all torn out of the Mail On Sunday dated 11 August...