Sky Portrait Artist of the Week – Part two
I’ve still been enjoying Portrait Artist of the Week, streamed from Sky’s Artist of the Year Facebook page. Originally the programme was set to run for four weeks (here is my blog post about the first four weeks), but it was extended for a further four....
Sky Portrait Artist of the Week
One of the best things about lockdown has been taking part in online events that you wouldn’t normally get a chance to do, artistically speaking. One of these is Portrait Artist of the Week, streamed from Sky’s Artist of the Year Facebook page. It’s...
Painting the model from life using the Zorn palette
This week members of the life drawing society I belong to were able to take part in a workshop by Alex Tzavaras painting a portrait from life using oils. We used the Zorn palette, a very simplified set of colours that work well for skin tones: titanium white, ivory...
Why I paint people
When people ask me what I prefer to paint it’s people, always people. I’m not making life easy for myself as I’ve found in the past few years of working as an artist that if you want to paint portraits, people much prefer having their animals...
Recent portrait paintings
It’s been a very busy year so far. I spent the first two months completing several large paintings and preparing for Surrey Contemporary Art Fair. My intention was to create statement pieces that celebrate colour. Next came the fair itself, a fantastic...
Painting progress
I’m still working on my series of paintings from my sketch trip to Leeds. After all the studies and the alla prima heads I drew and painted I’ve got to bite the bullet, stop procrastinating and get stuck in to the main pieces. Exhibition! The big news, and...
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...
A sketching trip
I’m planning a series of portraits to try to build a cohesive body of work. It’s quite easy to get stuck in your ways and paint only what and who is around you so I decided to be a bit brave and go on a sketching trip. My son works in Leeds and knows a...Have I helped you?
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