Following on from my blog on the gridding technique, here is the progress of the painting in oils. For this portrait I used SAA artists acrylics and oils. I like using natural primed canvas for my portraits – I think the colour and texture compliment the subject and I can leave some of the portrait…
Obtaining a likeness in a portrait requires the accurate placing and sizing of the features within a well-shaped head. There are a number of methods to do this, one of which is gridding – drawing a grid on both the reference photo and artwork and then transferring the details from each square on the photo…
Well it’s been a very productive start to the week, due mainly, I think, to the simple task of setting some goals for the first quarter of this year. As a result of this, I’ve scheduled various tasks in my diary to ensure I have time to paint. ‘Obvious’ you may say; ‘been doing that…
