It’s my forty-sixth birthday today. Forty-six! Blimey. To mark the occasion, my old pal, Phill Hosking, dropped by the house today with a card – and inside the card, Phill’s portrait-come-caricature of yours truly – grey of beard, generous-of-nose and cosy-looking in my new yellow Christmas scarf. What a nice surprise – thank you, Phill!


16 responses to “Phil G by Phill Hosking – A Birthday Portrait”

  1. Happy Birthday Phil!! What a perfect wonderful gift! Also, I am super jealous of that gorgeous yellow scarf 😍

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  2. My mum crocheted it – want one? She’ll sort it – let me know! 😀

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  3. Happiest of birthdays Phil! Wishing you all the best for this coming year and Phil captured your essence perfectly! X

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    1. Cheers, Mr Daly – “Happy New Year!” X

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  4. Great portrait, Happy Birthday Phil, personally I think you look better in a “Ruff”

    Best wishes

    Di and Kevin

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    1. Haha! Thank you 😀 I think, with your permission, the ‘other portrait’ to which you refer should make a ‘Throwback Friday’ appearance at some point – with all due credit given, of course! Meanwhile, at the grand old age of 46 looking ‘ruff’ is coming increasingly easy to me!

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  5. Happy Birthday! The warmth of the colors suits you. (K)

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  6. Not too hard to capture the essence you old fellow, plenty to get the teeth into. Many happy returns pal..

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    1. The artist himself! Thanks for this, Phill – it was nice surprise… though by ‘the essence’ you mean ‘big nose, big beard’?! 😀

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      1. um… No comment..

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  7. And happy birthday. I hope you have a brilliant day, and the world opens up for you again very soon. p.s. 46 is still young. xo

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    1. Cheers Judy! A Happy New Year to you and yours too! X

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  8. Belated Happy New Year to all on Kick About and many thanks to our host Phil for keeping our artistic juices
    running in 2020. I did send birthday wishes on Facebook Phil – but here’s a few more! x

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    1. Thanks Marion – I have a ghost profile on FB from many moons ago, but I’ve never been active on there, so thanks for finding me on here! X

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  9. […] few days ago, I was very happy to share this portrait-come-caricature, drawn by the artist, Phill Hosking, to mark the occasion of my forty-sixth birthday. While I am […]

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