WB Yeats Caricature

 Caricature of the Irish poet, WB Yeats

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Work In Progress: Duff McKagan

 

Work in progress shot of Gn'R bassist, Duff McKagan

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Blondie WIP

 

Work in progress snap of Blondie's Debbie Harry and Chris Stein

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Jean-Michel Basquiat

 Portrait of the neo-expressionist artist, Jean-Michel Basquiat.

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David Bowie Caricature Portrait

 

Bowieeeee—just a beer light to guide him...

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Saul Bellow Caricature Portrait

 Urbane word Titan: Saul Bellow

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Faris Badwan Portrait

 Caricature portrait of The Horrors' lead singer, Faris Badwan.

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Stevie Wonder Caricature

 

Stevie!
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Talk about faffing and futzing. At some point it has to be "Enough! PRINT IT!"
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Dave Gahan Caricature

 

Depeche Dave

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Man Ray Caricature

 

Caricature of photographer and artist, Man Ray

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Ayn Rand Caricature

 Caricature of Ayn Rand

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Tim Burton Caricature

 

Caricature of film maker and artist, Tim Burton.

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Jackson Pollock Caricature

 

Caricature of artist, Jackson Pollock.

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Shane MacGowan Caricature

No more waltzing matilda—RIP, Shane MacGowan.
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Back in '86—fresh-faced, relatively innocent and toward the beginning of my gig-going career—I was parentally taxied, along with my even more fresh-faced younger brother, to the Reading Hexagon to see (with slight trepidation, if I'm being honest about it) anarchic Irish folk-punk band, The Pogues, who were busting onto the music scene and were already notorious. As younger bro, @steviec7T has a better recollection of the event, the following words are stolen from his insta-post: "...Just a mad, mad night, but brilliant nonetheless. The band came on, the first chord was struck. Half the band started playing one song, the other half another, and Shane - swigging from a whiskey bottle with no label - started to sing something else altogether. Three bars in everyone stopped, cursed each other and then launched into The Sick Bed of Cuchulainn - the place went wild!..."
As was customary within the mayhem of a Pogues' crowd, the beat was accompanied by the bashing of a beer tray over one's own (or neighbour's) head. Back then, mass performance-capture by smart-phones was a thing of the distant future—which was just as well as it would have seriously hampered all that self-administered head-banging. Sláinte! indeed.

Martin Amis Caricature

 

'Little Keith'

Caricature of the late author, Martin Amis. Still find it hard to believe he won't be picking up his pen again.

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PJ O'Rourke Caricature

The magnificent face of the late satirist and journalist, PJ O'Rourke. A fine head of hair to the last (full stop).

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Henry Miller Caricature

 The air-conditioned face-frag: a caricature of the writer, Henry Miller

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Pablo Picasso Caricature

 

Pablo!

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Rodrigo Amarante Caricature

Caricature of musician, Rodrigo Amarante. Love it when I tumble down a musical rabbit hole that leads to a brilliant new discovery: The Strokes➡Little Joy➡Rodrigo Amarante➡Los Hermanos!

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Tom Verlaine Caricature

 

A mug-mash of the highly influential Television's recently departed Tom Verlaine.

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Brendan Gleeson Caricature

A face-frag caricature of the actor, Brendan Gleeson.

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Angelo Badalamenti Caricature

Caricature of composer, Angelo Badalamenti; another big-hitter departure from the world of music.

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Caravaggio Caricature

 

Caravaggio! This crazy Italian's art swiftly became a favourite study in my schoolboy art history lessons: all those marvellous eye-popping canvases lighting his subjects as though a spotlight had been flicked on in a pitch dark room. He also confirmed in my mind that painters weren't necessarily wilting petals who baulked at real work and drooped under a light rain shower. When not mixing paints he was mixing it with the locals and took things too far having to split Milan because of a murder charge. It would seem as much paper was given over to his rap sheet as was for his preparatory sketches—you wouldn't want to stiff him over a commission. As he didn't post many selfies I referenced his painted portraits, checked out actors who have played him on film but mainly took a whole bunch of liberties to come up with something I really hope he looked like.

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Jet Black Caricature

 

Farewell to Jet Black, The Stranglers' long-time toiler behind the kit.

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Wilko Johnson Caricature

 

RIP singer, guitarist and actor, Wilko Johnson. An exploding fireball somehow seemed an appropriate backdrop for this caricature. Twice round my digital drawing board for Mr Johnson—but well worth it, he had a brilliant face.

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