I love drawing portraits, and these two beautiful children were such fun to draw. I got their Mom to take the two of them to the beach where Phil took some magnificent photos of them running, and playing along the shore in the shallows. The result was I had plenty of bright animated faces to…
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Portrait of a woman
Portrait of a woman Acrylic on MDF board 30 x 23cm (12 x 9 inch) Developing from the limited palette exploring painting darker skin tones was the next step. For this exercise I moved away from the Zorn palette and looked at the hues within the photograph I was working from. This will make a huge…
A first attempt at portraiture
For a while now I have been wanting to try my hand at portraiture, but fear has consistently got in the way. I can draw a face, I wasn’t too worried about that… It was making the face look like the person that I was drawing that I was terrified of not getting right! I…
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