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Sunday, 10 August 2025

Drawings of Angelique from the Portrait Group

   I had a lot of fun today doing these portraits of our model, Angelique. I tried out a few different mediums, styles and techniques.


   





Sunday, 3 August 2025

Immaculate Chicken

 


Bastet, Goddess of Cats

 


Chloe: The Stretch

 


Chloe & My Sketchbooks.

 I have been filling up sketchbooks like there is not tomorrow. I have two and a half for 2025 already. One of those I started in 2019, put it away somewhere, found it and continued with it this year! Anyhow, sometimes I missed a page here and there, so I am filling the blank pages up with various odd sketches such as this one of my cat, Chloe. She actually looks a lot sleeker, even for eleven years old, than here. Sorry, Chloe! I added a digital tint.



Here she is before she was scanned, and the page cropped and tinted. Maybe it looks better without the tint. I have begun numbering sketchbook pages and adding an index. I saw one particular cartoonist who had a separate book which told him what was in all his sketchbooks.


Clocktower Medical Clinic in August.

 Patience is needed when waiting at medical clinics, and so are patients.





Alice Cooper Guillotined

 As part of some of his acts Alice Cooper appeared to lose his head in a Guillotine. As a 1970s teenage fan of Alice Cooper, I had a photo on my bedroom wall, of Alice with his head in the device. Here is my cartoon version: