David (the REAL Film Cricket ) 📎
@thestrovinator.bsky.social
Old. Married to Christine. English living in the Highlands of Scotland, family problems and disputes mean we may end our days in bloomin' Hampshire now! Not even a tiny bit right-wing. I write, give film opinions, paint and design stuff.
Thank goodness you have people like that in your country then and now. we all need more. I posted this on another feed; here's a painting I did of my late dad at 18 in the Royal Navy in WW2. He was out with your fellas in '45 stationed as a young lad on King George V fighting the Japanese.
December 3, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Thank goodness you have people like that in your country then and now. we all need more. I posted this on another feed; here's a painting I did of my late dad at 18 in the Royal Navy in WW2. He was out with your fellas in '45 stationed as a young lad on King George V fighting the Japanese.
I painted this picture of him as an 18 year during the war in his Royal Navy uniform and he pinned it up on the living room where it stayed for years until he had to come and live with us so I could care for him...
December 3, 2025 at 8:54 PM
I painted this picture of him as an 18 year during the war in his Royal Navy uniform and he pinned it up on the living room where it stayed for years until he had to come and live with us so I could care for him...
I think I quite like Blade Runner - there's also another painting of Rachael I did but it was so bad I won't show it 🤣
December 2, 2025 at 9:45 PM
I think I quite like Blade Runner - there's also another painting of Rachael I did but it was so bad I won't show it 🤣
Just for you - I painted this recently - name the TV show - as a kid and young lad I liked it as much as the things you've done....
December 2, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Just for you - I painted this recently - name the TV show - as a kid and young lad I liked it as much as the things you've done....
I stick this on my design work - it would spoil my paintings a bit though...
November 29, 2025 at 12:19 PM
I stick this on my design work - it would spoil my paintings a bit though...
Randall & Hopkirk (deceased) I had to paint this, I loved it when I was a lad, my brother told me about it, on TV on Sunday after The Big Match, I watched it once and that was me hooked. #TVArt #RandallandHopkirk #portrait #art #artist #StrovArt #painting #portraitpainng #KennethCope #MikePratt
November 29, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Randall & Hopkirk (deceased) I had to paint this, I loved it when I was a lad, my brother told me about it, on TV on Sunday after The Big Match, I watched it once and that was me hooked. #TVArt #RandallandHopkirk #portrait #art #artist #StrovArt #painting #portraitpainng #KennethCope #MikePratt
@dallasgoldtooth.bsky.social it's not brilliant I admit but I did it because I loved the show and your character so much....and you seem like a good chap too!
November 29, 2025 at 10:28 AM
@dallasgoldtooth.bsky.social it's not brilliant I admit but I did it because I loved the show and your character so much....and you seem like a good chap too!
Hey Frankly thanks for the follow.
We're similar painters in a way. Style is not the same but we both use gouache and we seem to paint actors and so forth....I still haven't got one as a friend though 😂
Brittany Allen's husband did post 'Wow man, that's great' under my painting of her...
We're similar painters in a way. Style is not the same but we both use gouache and we seem to paint actors and so forth....I still haven't got one as a friend though 😂
Brittany Allen's husband did post 'Wow man, that's great' under my painting of her...
November 24, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Hey Frankly thanks for the follow.
We're similar painters in a way. Style is not the same but we both use gouache and we seem to paint actors and so forth....I still haven't got one as a friend though 😂
Brittany Allen's husband did post 'Wow man, that's great' under my painting of her...
We're similar painters in a way. Style is not the same but we both use gouache and we seem to paint actors and so forth....I still haven't got one as a friend though 😂
Brittany Allen's husband did post 'Wow man, that's great' under my painting of her...
The Electrical Life of Louis Wain. Loved the film. Had to paint this. Had to stop overworking it. I know it's not perfect. I'm happy I painted it. I think the film is predicting my life #WillSharpe #ClaireFoy #BenedictCumberbacth #painting #artist #portrait #filmart #TheElectricalLifeofLouisWain
November 23, 2025 at 1:57 PM
The Electrical Life of Louis Wain. Loved the film. Had to paint this. Had to stop overworking it. I know it's not perfect. I'm happy I painted it. I think the film is predicting my life #WillSharpe #ClaireFoy #BenedictCumberbacth #painting #artist #portrait #filmart #TheElectricalLifeofLouisWain
Hi, don't worry! I am working on a painting 🤣 Meantime, I thought I'd post this. Stages of my portrait of Mark Rylance as Thomas Cromwell. Might help someone? Look at the poor drawing, the changes, I even altered the face right near the end! But it came out okay! #painting #art #portrait #howsitdone
November 22, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Hi, don't worry! I am working on a painting 🤣 Meantime, I thought I'd post this. Stages of my portrait of Mark Rylance as Thomas Cromwell. Might help someone? Look at the poor drawing, the changes, I even altered the face right near the end! But it came out okay! #painting #art #portrait #howsitdone
Well Suzie, is finished, it's not great I admit, and not to my usual standard, but I have been battered and bruised emotionally so I'm glad I took the brushes and finished it. She was lovely old Suzie too.... #art #painter #painting #artist #petart #dogart #petdog #StroverArt #StroverFans 😂
November 19, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Well Suzie, is finished, it's not great I admit, and not to my usual standard, but I have been battered and bruised emotionally so I'm glad I took the brushes and finished it. She was lovely old Suzie too.... #art #painter #painting #artist #petart #dogart #petdog #StroverArt #StroverFans 😂
I don't post much about this here. For any following Canucks that are into ice-hockey, I do promotional/information graphics for Hockey Freaks FB group to do with NIHL National (2nd tier) UK ice hockey. I used to work for several clubs, the leagues. A boxscore of a game from this weekend #icehockey
November 18, 2025 at 6:49 PM
I don't post much about this here. For any following Canucks that are into ice-hockey, I do promotional/information graphics for Hockey Freaks FB group to do with NIHL National (2nd tier) UK ice hockey. I used to work for several clubs, the leagues. A boxscore of a game from this weekend #icehockey
Well after my soap-opera I actually picked up some paint brushes and did a bit more painting. It's not my usual standard, but it does look like Suzie and there's a lot more work to do - but I did something....I actually did some painting.... #art #paintingpets #Suzie #artist #painting #dogart
November 18, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Major family falling out - not started by us - no one talks or has anything to do with us. Didn't even ask about my wife's oncology report. The granddaughter's birthday Nov 16 to show we cared we sent a picture of her presents. No response at all #pyschos #familyfallout #isolated #noreason #sadwife
November 17, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Major family falling out - not started by us - no one talks or has anything to do with us. Didn't even ask about my wife's oncology report. The granddaughter's birthday Nov 16 to show we cared we sent a picture of her presents. No response at all #pyschos #familyfallout #isolated #noreason #sadwife
Here's some more Suzie. It's not great, but it does look a tad more like her. Please don't judge — there is a lot more to do. I am under extreme stress/pressure with personal life problems, so trying to paint this love-beast is a good outlet regardless of what it looks like #art #artist #petpainting
November 2, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Here's some more Suzie. It's not great, but it does look a tad more like her. Please don't judge — there is a lot more to do. I am under extreme stress/pressure with personal life problems, so trying to paint this love-beast is a good outlet regardless of what it looks like #art #artist #petpainting
It's Halloween so why not? I drew this by the way, bloomin' years ago, with my software & the freehand line tool. Not traced, or vectorised, or AI (wasn't about then anyway), just me, my eyes and a photo of Bub.... #DayoftheDead #Halloween #Bub #GeorgeRRomero #TheDead #DesignerStuff
October 31, 2025 at 4:22 PM
It's Halloween so why not? I drew this by the way, bloomin' years ago, with my software & the freehand line tool. Not traced, or vectorised, or AI (wasn't about then anyway), just me, my eyes and a photo of Bub.... #DayoftheDead #Halloween #Bub #GeorgeRRomero #TheDead #DesignerStuff
1/2 Well here you go @fr071193.bsky.social I've finally started another painting. Suzie who was our family dog back in the 80s-90s. She lived to 24! I haven't got any clear photos of her so this will be memory and blurry Kodaks. Good news my wife's CT scan has shown her cancer to be still dorment!
October 29, 2025 at 4:11 PM
1/2 Well here you go @fr071193.bsky.social I've finally started another painting. Suzie who was our family dog back in the 80s-90s. She lived to 24! I haven't got any clear photos of her so this will be memory and blurry Kodaks. Good news my wife's CT scan has shown her cancer to be still dorment!
Some portraitst what I have done over the last few years - this is a small collection 😂 #art #artist #painting #painters #portraitartist #portraits #gouacheart #paint #portraitart
October 12, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Some portraitst what I have done over the last few years - this is a small collection 😂 #art #artist #painting #painters #portraitartist #portraits #gouacheart #paint #portraitart
I do 'em too....a small collection. 😊
October 11, 2025 at 11:00 AM
I do 'em too....a small collection. 😊
Send this around my friends/family on WhatsApp before posting, they are all normally over-the-top, 'Oh that's brilliant' etc. but this one got 'Not as good as your other work' for the first time ever! Anyone guess where this is? #painting #art #landscapes #artist #painter #landscapeart
October 9, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Send this around my friends/family on WhatsApp before posting, they are all normally over-the-top, 'Oh that's brilliant' etc. but this one got 'Not as good as your other work' for the first time ever! Anyone guess where this is? #painting #art #landscapes #artist #painter #landscapeart
Well that's the late Bramble framed and up on the living room wall, same wall as Chris' my wife gazing out at Weston-super-Mare pier 🥰 #art #artist #painter #landscape #portrait #catart #painting #petart #lovedones
September 24, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Well that's the late Bramble framed and up on the living room wall, same wall as Chris' my wife gazing out at Weston-super-Mare pier 🥰 #art #artist #painter #landscape #portrait #catart #painting #petart #lovedones
Take it in folks! As rare as rocking horse poo, one of my paintings framed and voluntarily on the wall where someone lives (not the lavatory/storage cupboard either). You won't see this often, if at all 😂 #art #landscape #ScottishHighlands #artist #painter #gouache #Scottishlandscapes #framedartwork
September 20, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Take it in folks! As rare as rocking horse poo, one of my paintings framed and voluntarily on the wall where someone lives (not the lavatory/storage cupboard either). You won't see this often, if at all 😂 #art #landscape #ScottishHighlands #artist #painter #gouache #Scottishlandscapes #framedartwork
Well one member of my family definitely likes my painting! 😂 Gave this to my step-daughter's step-daughter because she said she liked it so much, and she got her boyfriend to frame it for the flat! #art #landscape #ScottishHighlands #artist #painter #gouache #Scottishlandscapes #framedartwork
September 19, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Well one member of my family definitely likes my painting! 😂 Gave this to my step-daughter's step-daughter because she said she liked it so much, and she got her boyfriend to frame it for the flat! #art #landscape #ScottishHighlands #artist #painter #gouache #Scottishlandscapes #framedartwork
Bramble - had an artists block again. I thought I'd paint the late, great Bramble. My mum's cat who lived with us after mum got dementia, then died, he even moved to Scotland with us. Sadly gone now, if he met you he would have come over said hello and loved you ♥️ #art #painter #artist #cat #Bramble
September 12, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Bramble - had an artists block again. I thought I'd paint the late, great Bramble. My mum's cat who lived with us after mum got dementia, then died, he even moved to Scotland with us. Sadly gone now, if he met you he would have come over said hello and loved you ♥️ #art #painter #artist #cat #Bramble
Hey just watched Paul Murton on BBC 2's 'Grand Tours of Scotland's Rivers' and tonight (Sept 10) he was visiting the River Tay. Guess what, he had a look at Kinnoull Hill Tower....yup the same one I painted - he never mentioned me though 😄 #art #ScottishLandscapes #painting #PaulMurton #RiverTay
September 10, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Hey just watched Paul Murton on BBC 2's 'Grand Tours of Scotland's Rivers' and tonight (Sept 10) he was visiting the River Tay. Guess what, he had a look at Kinnoull Hill Tower....yup the same one I painted - he never mentioned me though 😄 #art #ScottishLandscapes #painting #PaulMurton #RiverTay