Thursday, October 23, 2008

Audrey Tautou

A portrait of the French actress Audrey Tautou.

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Final:

Thursday, October 16, 2008

Batmen part 2

The second batch of caricatures of the actors who have portrayed Batman in movies.

Val Kilmer (Batman Forever, 1995); George Clooney (Batman and Robin, 1997); Christian Bale (Batman Begins, 2005, and The Dark Knight, 2008)

Monday, October 13, 2008

Daniel Craig caricature sketches

Some sketches of Daniel Craig as 007, done in preparation for something better.

Tuesday, October 07, 2008

Paul Newman, 1925 – 2008

A tribute to the recently deceased screen legend.

Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Audrey Hepburn caricature

More Audrey, this time a caricature for a thread on the Drawing Board.

Saturday, September 27, 2008

Audrey Hepburn sketches

I've had a number of people tell me that I should paint Audrey Hepburn, because she seems like my "type". I am a fan of Audrey, but always felt somewhat intimidated by her quirky beauty to try and capture it.

I've decided to bite the bullet and have a go but, before starting on a more involved piece, I thought I'd work up to it by doing some sketches.

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Batmen part 1

The first three in a series of caricatures depicting the actors who have portrayed Batman in movies.

Adam West (Batman, 1966); Michael Keaton (Batman, 1989 and Batman Returns, 1992); Kevin Conroy (Batman: Mask of the Phantasm, 1993)

Thursday, September 11, 2008

Diana Rigg

A portrait of British actress Diana Rigg

Friday, September 05, 2008

Universal Horror

Some quick portraits of three of the stars of the old Universal horror movies.

Bela Lugosi as Dracula; Colin Clive as Dr Henry Frankenstein; Boris Karloff as Frankenstein's Monster.

Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Shelley Duvall caricature

A companion piece to my Jack Nicholson - Shelley Duvall, also from "The Shining"

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Final:

Monday, July 28, 2008

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

A caricature of Jack Nicholson in Stanley Kubrick's movie of "The Shining".

I wanted to avoid the cliched Jack caricature of the iconography of Jack (forehead, grin, eyebrows, shades, cigar) and thought that painting him in character was the best way to go about it.


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Final:

Friday, July 25, 2008

Sylar caricature

A caricature of Zachary Quinto as Sylar from the TV show "Heroes". I got bored with the show somewhere in the middle of the first season, but always thought this character had an interesting face.

Monday, July 21, 2008

More Mathilda May

A couple of quicker, looser Mathilda May pictures.

The first is based on a still from the movie "Naked Tango", which isn't as pervy a movie as it sounds. It is a beautifully photographed film, though, and I would recommend it to fans of good cinematography.

I don't know where the second one is from, but I wanted to show an older, and still beautiful, Mathilda. The actual size close up shows how I attempted to capture the character that time has added to her face.

Thursday, July 17, 2008

Mathilda May

A portrait of the French actress Mathilda May, probably best known internationally for the movie "Lifeforce"

Sketch; Finished piece



This is the second entry in my occasional series of European Actresses, and the third in my Alliterative series

Friday, June 27, 2008

Nicolas Cage caricature

A caricature of the actor Nicolas Cage.

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Final: