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Still Life – Apple
I’ve realised that not everybody feels confident enough to tackle portraits so, for those of you who are new to painting, I’ve decided to do some simple still life demonstrations. These are something I’m wanting to improve at so you can join with me and practise drawing from life. The aim is to learn proportions,…
Gridding Technique
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…
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…
Lockdown challenge update 2
Well we’re past the first week of lockdown and I’ve got quite a few photos to show you. As well as the paintings I’ve been doing, I’ve got pictures from Paul, Julia, Julie and Janet. If anyone else would like to join in, please do send me photos – it’s great receiving messages with photos…
‘Swannie McSheep Face’ or ‘What’s in a Name’
In-between detailed portraits it’s good fun to paint some small speedy pictures to loosen up and take a break. Here are a few 1 hour oils paintings completed one day by means of a rest. They are not the most skilfully executed paintings, but they are good practice. One of them obviously could have been…
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
Amazing painting
Absolutely fabulous, Jackie. Really beautiful painting.