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 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…
Selfie Portrait from Life – Wax Crayon and Watercolour This self portrait sketch had a time limit… loosely though, I can’t be too hard on myself… within an hour. I think I managed it in 40, maybe 45, minutes. Sitting on a cushion on the floor in front of the mirror wasn’t the most comfortable and…
Daily Faces After a month of sticking to my commitment to post a painting every day for the whole of Advent and creating a collection of paintings of animals and birds that I loved working on, I set myself another task… In lieu of New Year’s Resolutions I decided that I would choose something that…
Advent Art Adventure It has been my dream to become a more productive and prolific artist, but as someone who has sometimes added detail upon detail to my paintings and spent days and occasionally weeks on one painting it wasn’t going to happen without a change of pace, scale and a challenge. I’ve already started with…
The title of this post comes with a multiple message… the first refering to my recent return to life drawing /painting and a chance to share some of my latest nudes! Drawing from a live model is one of those disciplines that I have come back to over and over since art school as the…
Last week the wisteria plant that has been growing up the side and over our back door for many many years without so much as a bud, had eventually decided to flower! We had almost given up on this ever happening – thinking that growing it in a pot had been to blame for the…
End of content
End of content