Happy Christmas 2016

My Christmas card to you …. Have a fantastic time everyone

A bit late posting the completion of this face. The difference between these 2 pictures is minuscule but I’ve included them both anyway commander le viagra. One of the beauties about this method of portrait painting is that, once you’ve established the proportions and tones in the monotone under painting, when it comes to adding…

We have skipped forward a couple of stages here – I seem to have neglected to photograph the first colour layer in oils. Hopefully the recording I’ve been doing will show the progress from monotone to this stage so watch this space. This has now had a couple of glazes of colour over the skin…

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…

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

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…