Yorkshire Artist: An Update from British Portrait Painter Hannah Ostapjuk Recent Small Studies I love quick sketching in pencil or charcoal… Painting Process Exploring the English countryside, progress. Currently working on this figure oil painting. These young ladies by the river. I am really enjoying painting this piece, it’s a much smaller scale and there’s […]
A great pleasure and in celebration – portrait commission unveiling. It was wonderful to attend the unveiling of Candace’s Portrait Commission… Gifted an oil sketch to be painted from life as a present for her birthday. The whole process has been an absolutely joy! Genuine and interesting. Candace was a star sitter. Intelligent, giving and […]
Portrait painters near me, a term used to find a local artist and you’ve found me! Commission a portrait of yourself, family, children, grandchildren. This has become a highly popular and sort after ‘thing’ to do. “Anyone” can take a photo (have to be careful there as I have photographer friends who’d disagree) but no […]
Proud to call myself a British Artist and happy to give you a peek at my oil painting process… It’s been a year [of this crazy pandemic] and today (22/03/21) I celebrated another birthday in lockdown. This past year has been everything from fantastic and exciting to stressful and very difficult. I have challenged and […]
Happy New Year from me, portrait painter Hannah Ostapjuk! I have many exciting things to tell you, Firstly, I completed ‘A Portrait of Young Destiny’ A Portrait of Young Destiny An oil painting sketched out when my daughter was 6 months old. Kept having to put it to one side to complete commissions and other […]
BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT!!! Ecstatic to be able to share the news of the Portraits for NHS Heroes book! My portrait of Bluebell will feature in the Bloomsbury publication, it’s out on 12th November but you can pre-order copies at your local book shop, on: Bloomsbury’s website, Amazon, Waterstones or WHSmith. The best bit, ALL ROYALTIES GO […]
Google Arts and Culture, in collaboration with Paintings in Hospitals, chooses to exhibit Portrait Painter Hannah Ostapjuk’s portrait of Bluebell. Tom Croft Artist’s Portrait for NHS Heroes, Healthcare Heroes, Project. Amazing! My oil painting of NHS Hero, Bluebell, selected to feature in Portraits of healthcare heroes. An art exhibition including work by emerging, professional and well-known portrait […]
Hannah Ostapjuk Portrait Artist UK & the Portraits for NHS Heroes Project It was important to me as a Yorkshire Artist that I represented this beautiful region and painted a portrait of a NHS Hero who worked or lived in Yorkshire. Portrait Artist Hannah Ostapjuk: Oil Painting – NHS Hero Blubell New portrait painting ‘Bluebell’, […]
Portrait Artist Yorkshire, a much needed up-date by Hannah Ostapjuk Artist and Portrait Painter. Life and work has been busy and I guess updating my news articles was the last thing on my mind. However in the current Covid-19 lockdown, I found the time to have a nice Yorkshire Tea and write this. On my […]