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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The results of a Zorn palette…..
The Swedish artist Anders Zorn (18 February 1860 – 22 August 1920) was one of Sweden’s foremost artists and famous for his limited palette. It is reported that he used only three colours for most of his works — yellow ochre, vermillion and ivory black, plus white. The result of this combination were some beautifully…
Another portrait
When I look at my first ever portrait and my most recent of the same subject I have come a long way. The choice of paper for the first sketch was very coarse sketch book paper because it was all very experimental. The coarseness of the paper tends to catch a lot of the graphite of the softer…
Prolific portraiting alert….
The last while I have been doing more portraits in pencil than I have been painting and there are more portraits to come. I’m not complaining, as I am thoroughly enjoying the process. I have posted these with the photographs supplied to me by the subjects Mum’s (with permission of course). Photographic source material Pencil…
Portraiture Challenge
School was probably the last time I drew a face with any degree of seriousness, and that was 3 plus decades ago at the very least! About a month ago I decided to give it another try. I have always been fascinated by faces, how different light affects the expression and how to use tonal variances…
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