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Rob @robxscott.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Digital #portrait painting of my friend Jon, from a photo, Chilling out in our garden one summer. #kleineKunstklasse

Digital #portrait painting of a man relaxing in a garden at night, with strong light from the left hand side, and shadow behind. The man has his hands clasped behind his head.

Rob @robxscott.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Digital #portrait painting of my friend Errol, from a photo. Hard to tell but he's giving us the thumbs up! Quite pleased with this one, good practice again. Really tiny changes to his mouth to try to capture his very subtle smile! We were in a night club, hence purple hues... #kleineKunstklasse

Digital #portrait painting of a man, Looking straight at the viewer. A very subtle smile, and one thumbs up

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Rob @robxscott.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

For last week's #portraitchallenge, I didn’t want to draw a passive Māori woman sitting politely for a Victorian photographer. Instead, I've depicted a fierce Māori female politician leading a protest haka in the NZ Parliament in 2025, while The Speaker watches on, unimpressed. Non conformance!

A painting illustrating a Māori female MP with a moko kauae (traditional chin tattoo) performing a protest haka inside the New Zealand Parliament. she faces the Speaker of the House, who looks on with disapproval.

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Rob @robxscott.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Timelapse video of my self portrait above... Hands up I did resize a couple of the construction lines and the glasses! Really pleased with how it turned out! The space on the left is where my reference photo sits, while I'm painting.

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Rob @robxscott.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Very late to the party, but here's my #proporly Rod Stewart #kleineKunstklasse

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Rob @robxscott.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

#proporly Brian Adams #kleineKunstklasse (note to self, don't paint what you think you see... Because 80s hair was MUCH bigger than you think!)

Digital painting of singer Bryan adams, self portrait looking into the camera

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Rob @robxscott.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

#portraitchallenge loved the @lizmtwt.bsky.social work so much that I started making a version of that instead! 😁 Really loved this challenge! Never thought to paint a bronze! I'm often stuck painting what's in my head, and not what I see... maybe this helped to free my mind!? #kleinekunstklasse

Digital painting of a bronze sculpture - Rachael Griffin by Manuel Izquiedo

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Rob @robxscott.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

My #portraitchallenge copy of the portrait of John Count McCormack, by William Orpen in 1923. As ever, great to practice my #digitalpainting. Body too long and small head, but quite pleased with some of the brush strokes. At times it looked terrible, I realised I could work over it to recover!

Digital painting copy of: A portrait of John Count McCormack, painted in oils on canvas by William Orpen in 1923. The subject is seated, wearing a light-colored suit and a white shirt, with a neutral expression against a soft, muted background.

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Rob @robxscott.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

More digital painting practice - trying to be quick and free...dropped the pencil prep sketches and straight into the 'paint'. Not great proportions but pleased with the feel. #kleineKunstklasse ... taking inspiration from chiaroscuro photography by: www.alexandriahuff.com/Chiaroscuro-...

digital painting of a man with strong chiaroscuro lighting, based on a photo by:
https://www.alexandriahuff.com/Chiaroscuro-Portraits

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Rob @robxscott.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

🧵 2 /2 Saw so much great stuff... Here are some of my favourites

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Rob @robxscott.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Saw so much amazing #art at the Royal Academy Summer exhibition tonight! Always so good. Really inspiring. Some of my favourite things below. #kleinekunstklasse 🧵 1/2

Opening room of the Royal Academy Summer exhibition - art stacked up displayed high up to the ceiling on every wall, and lots of people looking and buying. so much to see!

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Rob @robxscott.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

I've tried to draw like Schiele previously but always overworked it! so this was great to try this #portraitchallenge with quick wobbly lines on a short train journey into London Bridge! 9 minutes. Thanks schnagi! #kleinekunstklasse

Digital pencil sketch copy of Egon Schiele 1912 self portrait, with intense oversize eyes and a slightly menacing frown!

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Rob @robxscott.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Practicing digital painting - trying to be quick and free...#kleineKunstklasse... taking inspiration from chiaroscuro photography by: www.alexandriahuff.com/Chiaroscuro-...

Digital painting of a man's face looking towards the camera, in the chiaroscuro Style- heavily shadowed with a black background

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Rob @robxscott.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

This week's #portraitchallenge! Tried to be a bit looser with my brush strokes like @lizmtwt.bsky.social (not very successfully! Face overworked!). Quite pleased though... Even though she really doesn't look ANYTHING like the original! 😂 (cc @barbarapabu.eurosky.social) #kleinekunstklasse

Digital painting of an old painting of Katherine knoblauch by kreuznach. A portrait of a woman wearing a gold-trimmed
headdress and elaborate clothing, set against a
landscape featuring mountains and a lake. She
has a serious expression with her hands clasped,which should be adorned with rings, but are not. The colors are rich and
vibrant with highlights.

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Rob @robxscott.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

#portraitchallenge trying out blending for her skin and highlights... Learned a lot! ... Not really happy with the initial sketch proportions of her face, but happy to move on! Digital pencil sketch using #infinitepainter #kleinekunstklasse

Sketch of a 1909 photo - A woman in historical attire holds a small small dik dik, against her chest. She has distinctive facial markings and wears a large hat.

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Rob @robxscott.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

My #portraitchallenge. Enjoyed this one! I've never made pen drawings 'irl'. Perhaps I don't like the finality or precision I think it needs...? Pencil feels safer?! Always love the pen work of others here, including @rikedraws.bsky.social & @cthonicyouth.bsky.social... #kleineKunstklasse

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Rob @robxscott.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

My version of Dr Pozzi, shown providing a subtle middle finger message to any homophobes or misogynists out there! After John Singer Sargents 1881 painting. #portraitchallenge #kleinekunstklasse Digital painting using #infinitepainter

A man in a bright red robe stands against a deep red background. He has a beard and mustache and is posed with one hand on his chest. The robe features white cuffs. The overall tone of the image is warm and rich.

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Rob @robxscott.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Self portrait from photo... strong light from above /behind with shadows. I felt really inspired by the amazing Claire Tabouret portraits I saw last week at the Voorlinden Gallery #infinitepainter #mARTch #kleineKunstklasse #ArtChallenge

Digital painting self portrait. A man with glasses and a short beard, strong light from above /behind with shadows

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Rob @robxscott.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

🧵 2 of 2 This close up of 'The Dock' by Claire Tabouret from Voorlinden is amazing, the light on the boys arm and shoulders is just incredible! I definitely want to try to make a study of this one day! #KleineKunstklasse #artyear

Close up detail from 'The Dock' by Claire Tabouret, , at the Voorlinden Gallery , The Netherlands. Boys playing on a floating dock, with the sun behind them, incredible colours and highlights

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Rob @robxscott.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Visited the amazing www.voorlinden.nl Gallery this week, near The Hague. Really impressed. Lovely architecture, and incredibly thought provoking and high quality art. 10 metres of sound by Philip Vermuelen was incredible - two ropes spinning incredibly fast, loudly! Some faves #kleinekunstklasse

Photo of the artwork 10 metres of sound by Philip Vermuelen, at the Voorlinden Gallery , The Netherlands - two ropes, dramatically lit from above, whirl incredibly fast, at different speeds... The sound was incredible!

$Close up photo from an artwork by Olafur Eliasson, 'Your iridescence'... Amazing reflective and refractive coloured glass balls$ Painting 'the dock' by Claire Tabouret, at the Voorlinden Gallery , The Netherlands. Boys playing on a floating dock, with the sun behind them, incredible colours and highlights

Painting 'the dock' by Claire Tabouret, at the Voorlinden Gallery , The Netherlands. Boys playing on a floating dock, with the sun behind them, incredible colours and highlights

Painting called 'Make up, Red Mouth' by Claire Tabouret , at the Voorlinden Gallery , The Netherlands

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Rob @robxscott.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

More sketches from tonight

Life drawing pencil sketch of a male model standing, from behind

Life drawing pencil sketch of a male model standing, and a close study of his head

Life drawing pencil sketch of a male model sitting on a chair from behind

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Rob @robxscott.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

#Lifedrawing at the clock house tavern in Peckham again tonight! #Pencilsketch #kleinekunstklasse

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Rob @robxscott.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

First time doing a #selfportrait. Really pleased with how it turned out (although it doesn't really look like me!). Could have spent more time on the initial sketch, but was great practicing more with digital painting. #kleinekunstklasse

Digital painting of a man with glasses and a slight beard...

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Rob @robxscott.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

#portraitchallenge a #digitalpaint version of 'Man Reading' by John Singer Sargent (1904). Really happy with the speed & proportions in my initial sketch... Continuing to learn techniques with the digital oil brushes. Could have refined more but I'm keen to get quicker &looser! #infinitepainter

Digital oil painting copy of man reading, by John Singer Sargeant (1904).

A man with a mustache is reclining and reading a book, resting his chin on his hand. He is dressed in a white shirt and dark jacket, with a blurred background. The painting features soft, muted colors and expressive brushstrokes.

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Rob @robxscott.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Another slightly quicker sketch from tonight's #urbansketching pop up at the Barbican conservatory tonight. #artyear

Digital pencil sketch of part of the greenhouse at the Barbican conservatory... White steel spaceframe structure holding up the vertical glass wall, with a London skyscraper in the distance... Two fellow sketchers in the foreground

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Rob @robxscott.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Some photos of this amazing space, in the incredible brutalist masterpiece in Central London. Londons second largest greenhouse after Kew!

Photograph looking up at sculptural concrete terracing in the Barbican conservatory, London

Photograph looking at a concrete bridge in the Barbican conservatory, London

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Rob @robxscott.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Great evening tonight #urbansketching at the conservatory greenhouse in the Barbican. First time trying to use my tablet like this... Pleased with the results, but this one sketch took a LONG time! Was great to test different brushes and techniques, and trying out layering of textures over colour.

Digital pencil and colourwash sketch of a woman at the top of some steps, inside a gloomy greenhouse at night, in the Barbican in the City of London

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Rob @robxscott.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

This was my first attempt! Felt it was OK, except pencil lines too dark, but then I hit on the idea that I could select and grow different parts to fix some dodgy proportions! So had a very quick play

Digital painting inspired by marianne stokes 1899 painting 'Dutch girl'. It has dark pencil construction line work on her chin, but her face is overall too small, and eyes particularly small... So needed to be fixed!

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Rob @robxscott.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Enjoyed a 45min #digitalpainting session for #portraitchallenge. This looks pretty odd, but I quite like that! My 1st go in some ways was better (annoyingly construction lines too dark), except my proportions were WAY off... So got to work with lasso and transform to upscaling her face then eyes! 🤣

Digital painting inspired by marianne stokes 1899 painting 'Dutch girl'. It has the crisply cropped chin because that part was hastily lasso'd then stretched bigger!

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Rob @robxscott.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

I was Inspired by two paintings by Jeanne Mammen. The amazing watercolour Saint Anthony and the Queen of Sheba, 1910 (thanks @oliver for the heads up!) sammlung-online.stadtmuseum.de/Details/Inde... And Reading Boy, 1943. Accessed from www.artnet.com/artists/jean...

watercolour Saint Anthony and the Queen of Sheba, by Jeanne Mammen, 1910. https://sammlung-online.stadtmuseum.de/Details/Index/1533968

Painting by Jeanne Mammen - Reading Boy, 1943.

Accessed from https://www.artnet.com/artists/jeanne-mammen/lesender-knabe-reading-boy-4s6ApOKxo4gl1O2vMLSY4Q2

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Rob @robxscott.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

#KlasseKunst |13/14| Jeanne Mammen #KleineKunstklasse A diptych on the modern obsession with ultraprocessed 'healthy' food. #1 Tried to convey mystical glow, but didn't go far enough! Really enjoyed this one. As always stuck between stopping too soon or overdoing it!

Digital painting of a boy standing in front of a refrigerator display of healthy foods. He is inspecting one item. The display is glowing as if to entice him in, but around him the scene is dark

Stylised digital painting of an overly muscly man, head in his hand, reading a protein shake. In the style of the painting by Jeanne Mammen, Reading Boy, 1943. Accessed from https://www.artnet.com/artists/jeanne-mammen/lesender-knabe-reading-boy-4s6ApOKxo4gl1O2vMLSY4Q2

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Rob @robxscott.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Below is the original, Interior with Lamp by Erma Bossi, 1909 From: et.wikiquote.org/wiki/Fail:Er...

Painting by Erma Bossi Interior with Lamp, 1909

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Rob @robxscott.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

#KlasseKunst |7/8| Erma Bossi #KleineKunstklasse 'Portraits of Mum and Dad, both in their happy place' Was really nice to think of memories of my parents - I can remember them very clearly in these scenes, Sailing and Decorating! Again enjoyed playing with digital painting for a change.

Digital painting of two scenes

My dad looking out from the cabin of a small yacht, with a cup of tea

My mum on a step ladder decorating, wearing (i think my granddads) boiler suit

In the style of Erma Bossi Interior with Lamp (that's a copy of Ermas lamp!)

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Rob @robxscott.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Inspired by this original www.wikiart.org/en/hendra-gu... Hendra Gunawan painting two women having meal, 1971

Hendra Gunawan painting two women having meal, 1971
From
https://www.wikiart.org/en/hendra-gunawan/two-women-having-meal-1971

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Rob @robxscott.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

#KlasseKunst |5/6| Hendra Gunawan #KleineKunstklasse 'One man, One future King of England having meal (Prawn Cocktail and Smokey Bacon)' Mainly for the joke, but I enjoyed playing with #infinitepainter #watercolour. Slight shame I relied on tracing a photo, but at least he's recognisable!

Digital watercolour and pencil sketch over a photo, of Two men at a pub table with pints, eating crisps from opened packets. One of them is Prince William, the other Eugene Levy. Inspired by Hendra Gunawan painting two women having meal, 1971

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Rob @robxscott.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Original from here www.wikiart.org/en/arnulf-ra...

Screenshot from wikiart of a 1978 painting by Arnulf Rainer - Untitled. (Death Mask)

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Rob @robxscott.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

#klassekunst FEB/2026 |03.-04.|Arnulf Rainer Inspired by Untitled (Death Mask) 1978 Enjoyed playing with a new tablet, using #infinitepainter. Never got on with digital painting, but this exercise is great, forcing me out of my comfort zone. In hindsight not nearly hairy enough!

Digital painting of a man smoking, inspired by Arnulf Rainer 1978 painting.

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Rob @robxscott.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

5minute #Pencilsketch of people working at the national theatre cafe, London

#Pencilsketch of two people working on laptops at a table at the national theatre cafe, London.

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Rob @robxscott.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

5minute #Pencilsketch of a security guard outside a building on the Southbank, in the freezing cold. Rather him than me! Seems pretty cheerful still. A great subject because I didn't have to draw any hands!

Pencil sketch of a security guard standing out in the freezing cold

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Rob @robxscott.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Self portrait pencil sketch "With a Vegetarian, waiting" (After Leo whelans 1919 painting 'at the veterinarian waiting') #portraitchallenge from a couple of weeks ago. Thanks @schnagi.mastoart.social.ap.brid.gy and @studioteabreak.bsky.social!

Greyscale Pencil sketch showing a couple sitting on a bench (with orange coloured carrot and beige houmous)... Inspired by the 1919 painting by Leo whelan, at the veterinarian waiting

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Rob @robxscott.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

#pencilsketch of a life drawing model, from behind 🧵3 of 3

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Rob @robxscott.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Doesn't look like the same model...! But enjoyed playing with oil pastels for this pose 🧵2 of 3

Sketch of a life drawing model, side on, in black white red and yellow pastels on yellow paper

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Rob @robxscott.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

#Lifedrawing again tonight at the clock house tavern in Peckham Rye! Great fun. Usual challenge of time versus accuracy in proportions... Plenty of mistakes (not shown!), but also lots I'm really happy with! Enjoyed the pastels for one, mostly #pencilsketch with some #watercolour 🧵1 of 3

Pencil sketch with watercolour, of a life model leaning over a chair

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Rob @robxscott.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

My quick study of this week's #portraitchallenge 10 minute #Pencilsketch with added red colour on my phone Thanks @schnagi.mastoart.social.ap.brid.gy and @studioteabreak.bsky.social

Pencil sketch of a painting - A portrait of a young boy, Laurie Morrocco by his father Albert Morocco (1917-1998). He’s dressed in a red sweater and dark coat, seated with a solemn expression.

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Rob @robxscott.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

My sketch of The Green Book #portraitchallenge by Harold Knight, 1925. Pencil sketch, 9 minutes. Quite pleased with how I didn't overdo my line work on her face. Thanks @schnagi.mastoart.social.ap.brid.gy and of course @studioteabreak.bsky.social

Pencil sketch study of the painting 'the green book', by Harold Knight, 1925

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