Gridding Technique
There are many ways to get an image accurately transferred to paper for drawing or painting. One which works well when you’re wanting to enlarge your image is the gridding method. This involves drawing equal numbers of rows and columns on your reference photo and your paper then accurately copying the contents of each square….
Where to in 2019
I find the beginning of a new year the perfect time to reassess… I don’t mean make new year’s resolutions – that feels like setting myself up to fail, but I like to plan where I go from here. Christmas gives a natural break to the year – chances are I’ll have finished a number…
Happy Christmas 2018
Happy Christmas to you all – hope you have a great time and a good start to 2019 Here’s a speedy clip of me painting this years Christmas card
The Big Day…
I have finally given Charlie and Anna the painting of their wedding day so I can now let you all see the YouTube clip of it’s painting and publicise it generally. It’s been sped up and is just over 5 minutes long, the actual painting took around 8-9 hours in total. I used a limited…
Article in Paint – magazine for the SAA
Feeling very pleased with the arrival of the SAA’s Paint magazine today containing, amongst other things, an article I wrote detailing the painting of Charlie and Anna on their wedding day. Taking decent photos following the progress of a painting and, hardest of all, writing blurb to accompany it, makes you really think about what…
An evening on the radio
I’m very fortunate to be surrounded by friendly, supportive people so, when I put out a call to friends and acquaintances looking for folks happy to sit for me while I practise portrait painting from life, I had a number of responses. However, I didn’t anticipate being invited to paint the 3 friendly guys who…