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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…
Face on Linen (1)
Have had this sketched out for a while – it’s time I started painting achat viagra generique. Here’s the first stage, the start of the underpainting in acrylic. I’m using raw umber. buff titanium and white. Once this is complete I’ll start the colour layers – I’m thinking of painting this in oils. The background…
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…
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
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….
Christmas is getting closer
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Amazing painting
Absolutely fabulous, Jackie. Really beautiful painting.