New – Commission oil paintings on paper
As I’ve been painting lots of them, I thought I’d add oil on paper portraits to the selection of commissions that I offer. You can have a look in my online gallery in the ‘portraits’ section at the paintings marked ‘Oil on paper’ to...
Alla prima portraits – progress pictures
I thought I’d show you how some of my recent portraits developed. I’ve painted these on Arches oil paper all in one go (alla prima), so without layers of glazes. Each painting is done in a day to take advantage of the properties of working wet on wet into...
Painting an outdoor sketch in warm weather
It was a beautiful sunny day the other day so I thought I’d go outside to paint. The sun was shining, the herbs were growing, all was very ideal. I set up my painting area sitting on a chair with all my paints and turps and brushes in the doorway and easy to...
Portrait prep
After my sketching trip to Leeds I have hundreds of photos and sketches to go through to potentially turn into paintings. It’s slightly overwhelming, so I decided to break the process into steps and get some prep sketches done to solidify the ideas I had when I...
Portrait of Rhiannon, folk musician
You might have read about my plans to paint a series of portraits of people showing their ‘superpower’. Well, I have made a start, and my first subject is the beautiful, and super talented Rhiannon, violinist and harpist and performer in a local folk band....
Thumbnail – group exhibition in London
Thumbnail group exhibition Nolia’s Gallery, 60, Great Suffolk St, Bankside, London SE10BL 9 May 2018 – 23 May 2018 I’m making my London gallery debut this week, as part of a group exhibition of work the size of a thumbnail – 2cm x 1.5cm There is a wide variety...
Studying with Felicia Forte
It’s been a busy month for me, lots of learning involved as well as my other work. Slowing down the drawing I took some one-to-one lessons over Skype with American portrait painter Felicia Forte. I was a bit intimidated at first as it’s pretty scary...
Experimenting
One of my goals for this year is to complete a series of paintings. To do that I need to be using a style that brings together the different things I want to say in each painting so as a whole the series looks cohesive. Basically, alongside finding my subject matter I...Have I helped you?
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