Pictures by Derek Bacon
Bob and Dylan. Dylan and Thomas.
This is No.3 (so far) in my series of date nights with people I’d like to meet but obviously never will. I’d ask a few questions, but mostly I think I’d just let them do the talking. Or if they don’t want to talk, that’s fine too. Nothing wrong with just sitting and looking at one another.
Portraits from police press releases. These 32 portraits are a follow-on to my ‘Somerset drug dealers‘ collection from 2017. What is it about these faces? They completely fascinate me. Some are defiant, some are defeated—but no one’s really posing. There’s something completely real about them. In the age of mugging for a profile picture, these have to be the polar opposite. (Drawn with Kyle brushes).
Portrait of Arno Brok—full page in last Saturday’s Leeuwarder Courant.
(Big thanks to Alie Veenhuizen).
Pencil and graphite drawing in the late fading afternoon.
Pencil and pen drawings from Amsterdam last weekend. 2 from Saturday’s meetup at Museumcafé Mokum, and 3 from the Sktchy meetup in Westerpark on Sunday.
A collection of dog drawings on Behance
Quick sketch in a pub in Terherne. This guy pretty much demanded that I draw him. I didn’t mind. I like a challenge. Done in pencil and gel pen in the front of his friend’s poetry book.
