Portrait Paintings
Nude in boots! Wouldn’t it be great to make life a little easier every day? Today I’m experimenting with posting from my phone…. It’ll be interesting to see how successful this turns out to be – as I’m really hoping that it’s an extra option that will help me to blog more often. Back to…
Beaming Beth – a smiling child portrait in watercolour Beautiful Beth was a little more of a challenge to paint than her sister Anna, as her big smile gives me another detail to paint – her teeth! They can be difficult to paint, as I found with one of my self-portraits – giving myself a…
Watercolour child portrait – Anna After a few days break in daily painting and daily posting I’m back with a watercolour portrait of Anna. Watercolour seems to be the perfect choice when it comes to painting children. It’s really important to keep the painting as simple as possible when portraying youth… no unnecessary lines or…
Another double dose of Downton Portraits! I haven’t been feeling well for the last couple of days and painting felt like too much of an effort… but I couldn’t actually keep away from my drawing board and I found that, although I didn’t have patience for paint, I did still want to draw. My short…
Mary, Mary Had a bit of a Downton day yesterday and grabbed an old pic of the three Crawley sisters from an early series of Downton Abbey. I had in mind that I wanted to create a Fauve style portrait – Lady Mary Crawley looked just the job! I set off with my oil pastel…
A Family Face – Remembering Auntie with a Portrait A few months ago my Uncle asked if I could paint him a picture of his late wife and I collected some photographs from him for the likeness. None of them really stood out as being ‘just’ Jean though and I worried about it for a…
Ruth as Steam Witch I received some lovely photos of Ruth, all bewitched for Halloween Steam, at the Railway Preservation Society of Ireland’s seasonal train trips with the message: “She wants to be painted as the witch!” That’s just what I like to see and hear – and I was most happy to oblige. Probably…
Portrait in Progress Today was one of those days when everything less important than painting seemed to take over… I did mean to make my Daily Face a quick sketch, but somehow was lured by the paints. This one’s from a photo of my friend Nem, who lives in Austria, taken the last time she…
Another Amazing Face! I’m giving Grace a little guidance with her art studies at the moment and am so pleased that she agreed to pose for my daily face project. I took the opportunity to make a couple of contrasting portraits. One in colourful acrylic, the other a soft watercolour, inspired by the soft texture…
Helen and Michael – vintage car portrait in gouache and oil pastel Sitting in the recently restored Riley vintage car after it’s very first outing (if not under it’s own steam quite yet!) Sketched in oil pastel and coloured with gouache… An unusual pairing of media, but I like to experiment. * Update 24th October…
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