Urban Sketches : The Portrait Challenge

I know I haven't posted for a long time, but I haven't been doing nothing.

For one thing, there's been a lot of urban sketching. Here's a few : -

Then, last Wednesday we embarked upon a challenge in the Afan Nedd Artists' Group. Along the lines of Portrait Artist of the Year, we've given each other just 4 hours to paint a portrait of Sir Anthony Hopkins - any medium, any size. I've only ever really painted portraits of my onw family before, but I'm having a bash. This is after 90 mins work

Finally there's this gaudy watercolour I painted, since it's coming up for a year since my visit to Prague: -