Category: Sport

An England XI

So now I have a complete England XI.  Properly balanced too: two opening batsmen, a wicket keeper and a five man bowling attack that includes two...

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Mike Brearley

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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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 -...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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