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…
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…
