Yorkshire Artist and British Portrait Painter unveils A Portrait of Elizabeth One of the most difficult, yet rewarding, parts of being a portrait artist is painting a loved one as their loved ones see them. I not only need to capture a likeness and their character as I see them but their very being as […]
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 […]
Here it is! The follow on article from Painting Lessons and your first chance, unless you follow me on Facebook, to see Aleksandra’s completed oil painting. This young artist has done so well! Our second lesson of 2016, described in my previous post, “We have now moved on to adding the final details to the portrait, Aleksandra […]
I began giving Aleksandra, a GCSE student, portrait painting lessons in September 2015. I think it is important for the younger generation to learn the oil painting techniques of the old masters, such techniques are not widely used in the art world anymore and I think it shows in the quality of work out there […]