portraits

Hitomi Tanaka

Retired erotic dancer, actress, performer, artist Watercolour on A3 paper

Fun and games

starring Hitomi Tanaka Pencil, watercolour, gouache, on A3 paper

Hitomi

Rephotographed this morning in daylight… straight watercolour in progress Digitally modified watercolour in progress

‘M’

Faber-Castell Polychromos pencil on A3 paper

Hitomi

Pen, brush and ink on A3 paper

Another portrait study

Initial pencil and charcoal drawing on a 14 x 14″ canvas Update, 23/02/2022. Background roughed in. Update, 22/02/2022. Charcoal drawing…

The face of contemporary porn

Update, 06/03/2022 Painting completed Update, 18/07/2022 Leaving this to dry and will finish it off – details and glazes –…

Self-portrait

This evening, (14/02/2022,) sunlight streaming in through the window Digitally modified photo

In the Line of Beauty

Two images. [1] Pen and ink and smudged charcoal on A4 drawing pad paper. [2] The same as [1] but…

Portrait of a man

Frederic Chopin Rotring pens and Chinese ink stick washes on A4 paper After an image of a Daguerreotype

Girl

,50 nib Rotring pen on A4

After…

a photographic image, a bronze, a plaster cast,

Power to the people

Power to the people, a wip, oil on canvas 40 x 20″ #powertothepeople#powertotheyoungpeople#powertowomen#powertothepoor#art#painting#protest#humanrights#libertyleadingthepeople

My friend Cat

A fun-filled drawing/painting of my good friend. Pencil, charcoal, soft pastel, watercolour, gouache, on A3 Ingres paper.

Socrates

A wise man who came to the realisation that in all honesty and truth he knew nothing. Fountain pen sketch…

Ahmad Shah Massoud

Lion of Panjshir Fountain pen sketch on Arches paper. Image size 10 x 15″ Fine weatherbeaten face

Beautiful or ugly?

Healthy or diseased? Fountain pen and watercolour on Arches paper. Size of image 20 x 8″

Her face

Fountain pen sketch on A4 watercolour paper

Dostoievsky

Fountain pen and ink on Arches watercolour paper Approx 12 1/2 x 19″

The Trial

of Franz Kafka Fountain pen and watercolour drawing on Arches watercolour paper 20½ x 28½”

For technical reasons

to do with the nature of oil paint, I need to put this piece aside and leave it to dry…