I had quite a long afternoon free today so thought I'd have a go at a posterised watercolour portrait. Today's subject is faction icon and former...
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Portrait Artist Of The Year 2025 Entry
I've bitten the bullet and put in my entry for Portrait Artist Of The Year 2025. My self portrait is this one. For my second portrait, I went...
Gary Delaney
Iāve painted quite a comedians this year. And in each case it was the face that drew me in. Comedians tend to have faces that make great portrait...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Applying To Landscape Artist Of The Year
I won't be completing my three landscapes in three days challenge. Ā One of the painful lessons I've learned over the years is that if I'm not...
Purdey
I wanted to give some of my new inktense pencils a runout, so that's what I'm going today. Ā And with three of those new colours being fleshy...
The Persuaders! Collection
And here they are together, The Persuaders! Ā Lord Brett Sinclair works better as one of a pair than he did on his own. What I find fascinating...
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...
Danny Wilde
I didn't know what I wanted to do today so asked my iPad for ideas. Ā It suggested that I do a portrait using markers. Ā If I do a portrait with the...
Frank Bough
Of all the celebrities ever to have been disgraced after being caught in a tabloid sting, Frank Bough is the most likely to raise a smile and the...
The Avengers 1965-67
And here they are together, Steed and Mrs Peel. Ā They go quite brilliantly together and are up for sale as a pair. Ā To see the price, click here.
Mrs Emma Peel
It was always going to happen. Ā Steed needed a partner. Ā I decided to go for Mrs Peel, a character that was sure to make a great painting. After...
Major The Hon. John Wickham Gascoyne Beresford Steed
This one took me a couple of days but it was worth it. Ā I picked out John Steed as played by the late Patrick MacNee in The Avengers and The New...
Hale And Pace
Today I've been painting Hale and Pace, a comedy double act from the 1980s and 90s. Ā Sometimes you see a photo and you just have to turn it into a...
Fleabag
A lot of my recent watercolour portraits seem to have been painted from a distance, including bodies, hands and things like that. Ā I wanted to go...