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I’ve created this video to accompany the portrait demonstrations I intend to do while we’re all having to stay indoors. I’ve chosen basic colours to mix skin tone, colours which you should hopefully already have if you’ve got acrylics or oils in your paint box. Using these 5 colours you can mix a vast array…
Q: How do you get men to tell you they like your legs?
Answer: Paint leggy females at Patchings Arts Festival! What a great time I had at Patchings – 4 full days of painting and talking to people enthusiastic about art. It felt like a real treat and turned out to be very productive – not only did I produce 2 linen figure portraits in oils, but…
Face on Linen (2)
Well I think I got quite carried away when I started on this painting. It occurred to me that I had intended to leave the hair unpainted – never mind, the application of a little alcohol with a toothbrush has taken it back. I may yet repaint the hair, but at least I can see…
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…
Challenge for November Lockdown
Despite having many things to be thankful for, it was hard not feeling down hearted at the thought of a month in Lockdown. I’ve decided the best way to get through whilst maintaining some sort of sanity is to find something to give me purpose, motivation and focus – something to occupy my mind and…
Christmas 2015
Started my illustration for this year’s Christmas card prescrire le viagra. This is a monotone underpainting in acrylics, establishing the features and tones. The next layers will be oils. I’m recording this so, hopefully, will have a YouTube clip with carols for you soon after I’ve finished it.
