Showing posts with label Jeffrey Archer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jeffrey Archer. Show all posts

Sunday, 20 February 2011

Old(ish) Stuff

It's a slow blog week, cos I'm working on a body of portraits that I'm posting on a group blog over at pre-faces.blogspot.com so here's a couple of recent commissions:



and some more sketches of Jeffrey Archer. Why oh why oh why ...




I think I almost got him in that last one.

Sunday, 19 December 2010

Christmas parties

Two in a row was always going to be tough.

I get through Thursday night okay by leaving early, but Friday it all goes Pete Tong:
  • I loose my bow tie
  • I spill red wine all down my shirt (dancing while drinking never works)
  • I do okay on the bucking reindeer
  • I hog the karaoke microphone and murder Queen, Elton John, Abba ... and the list goes on
  • I round it all off by asking the taxi driver if I can paint his portrait.
Oh dear.

On the plus side ....

here's some sketches purporting to be of Jeffrey Archer.



I just can't seem to get the likeness right, so here's a sketch of Casares in Spain that I do like: