WHILST SITTING in front of the TV, not really watching it, I’ll often be scribbling away, producing caricatures, from some photos on the iPad. On this particular evening, I decided to have a go at the Brit Artist of the Unmade Bed, Tracey Emin. Judging by the seventy-seven likes on Facebook, I seem to have […]
Drawing Portraits with the Barnet Guild of Artists I FINALLY TOOK the plunge today and joined in drawing portraits with the Barnet Guild of Artists at their Whalebones studio headquarters. Whalebones is a 200-year-old house in very rural grounds between Barnet hospital and Wood Street whose entrance is marked by the arch of two old […]
[foogallery id=”1812″] OFTEN A Caricaturist is referred to as a ‘Sketch Artist’ because of the speed at which we work when drawing at live events. But many of us persist in pursuing ‘proper’ sketching in our spare time. It pays to keep practiced at observing and trying to accurately depict scenes with the correct proportions […]
HOW DID I come to draw this pencil sketch of Howard Jacobson? While the TV is on in the evenings, I am invariably scribbling in a sketchbook, particularly when the programme on show is on more for other family members rather than me. Often, I scan the news to see which characters are prominent but […]
AMERICAN ITALIAN actor, Ernest Borgnine changed his name from Ermes Effron Borgnino enjoyed a Hollywood career that lasted nearly seventy years. As well as being well known for films such China Corsair (1951), From Here to Eternity (1953), Vera Cruz (1954) and Bad Day at Black Rock (1955) he provided the voice of Mermaid Man on […]
AS A CARICATURIST, I am drawn (sorry!) to all sorts of faces but some have a long lasting haunting quality which make them more compelling than others. I was talking to a couple of friends about Vincent Damon Furnier only the other day which made me realise that, though I’ve long been a fan of […]
COLIN FARRELL was inspired to try acting after being moved to tears by the leading boy actor in Stephen Spielberg’s E.T The Extra-Terrestrial. I’ve admired him in many movies from Phone Booth to Saving Mr Banks but it was while watching him alongside Al Pacino in The Recruit that I felt compelled to try to […]
