Philip Marlowe (6 x 4 inches - watercolour)

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Laconic and no nonsense types... love the write up as much as the picture. I'll find a use for that "face that's been slept in" line.

Posted by D Hillman on Fri 30 Mar 09:13:11

Wonderful!!! I too love your write up, some great lines.

Posted by Margaret Beynon on Fri 30 Mar 09:21:05

Fine piece Lewis

Posted by Dennis Rounding on Fri 30 Mar 10:50:43

He looks pretty dodgy to me. Are you sure he is the good guy? Like the write up too.

Posted by Tony Wiggins on Fri 30 Mar 11:13:45

Love those old movies, still watch them when they are played, Robert Mitchum springs to mind, this is another great sketch.

Posted by Linda Drury on Fri 30 Mar 11:33:56

Great picture,Lewis.

Posted by Seth Dalton on Fri 30 Mar 11:43:00

No doubt Hank Jansen figured in your reading back a ways Lewis. Love the totally un-Hollywood reality of your heroes. Bogart, Mitchum, Lorre, Orson Wells and Sidney Greenstreet all come to mind. Keep up the great images...(-:

Posted by Jim Morris on Fri 30 Mar 11:43:30

Brilliantly depicted. He looks intimidating as well.

Posted by Gudrun Ståhl Sharpley on Fri 30 Mar 12:46:22

Indeed, meaningful lines. And you are a no nonsense artist Lewis. Another very expressive piece.

Posted on Fri 30 Mar 14:51:25

Great painting

Posted by Maureen Sherman on Fri 30 Mar 16:27:07

Laconic is exactly the look you've captured so well, Lewis. Top marks yet again!

Posted by Thalia Stones on Fri 30 Mar 16:50:11

Excellent Lewis!

Posted by Fiona Phipps on Sat 31 Mar 16:30:43

Hang on Studio Wall

30/03/2018

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This is my idea of Chandler's private eye, but he's representing a whole swathe of characters from writers like Elmore Leonard and Ed McBain. I love the spare, cut to the bone, way they are written...every word having to earn it's keep. And they are full of great lines...describing a suspect...'He had the kind of face that looked like it had been slept in all night.'

About the Artist

Lewis Cooper

Self taught. Love drawing. Like to make pictures up, without using reference pics, often in cartoon style. I do other pictures where I do use reference. I'm knocking on a bit, born in 1940 in Greenwich, London. Retired, and loving it.

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