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…
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…
Oil Pastel Portrait of Martin Our friend Martin called round to loan us some old photographs to scan for a book project and was recruited to be photographed for portrait reference images. He obliged most graciously even stricking a pose when I suggested that I hoped to put as much fun into my project as…
Happy St Patrick’s Day! It feels like a good day to share my recent portrait painting in oils of Catherine. Her colourful outfit in green, yellow and red, was rather obscured by the profile view – but I enjoyed painting this vibrant green and I just loved the hat. I began to block in the…
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