Tag: acrylic
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Old Work: Cornwall and Beyond
I will admit I was reticent to show this work as unlike the other pre-degree work it’s less technically able, and it’s most definitely the work of a child – because I was! When I was a young teenager I was moving around because of my parent’s divorce – hence Shropshire where my mother lived…
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Portraits At The Pub 21 – Eljai
Second Portraits At The Pub of 2022 and the model was Eljai (or was it Eljay or LJ?) and I started with a rather Victorian drawing, all prim and proper and weirdly elongated. I was sitting at the back rather than right at the front, so that gave me a different view than usual. I…
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Ink Lightfastness Tests
Weird to be presenting lightfast tests in the darkest time of the year but since last summer I have been testing the various inks I use for lightfastness, and here are the results. Lightfastness is the way pigments and dyes react to UV light – if they aren’t lightfast they fade or shift in colour…
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Sky Arts Portraits Week 1-4
Lacking my usual live portrait sessions, I’ve been taking part in the Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Week. This is a virtual sitting of four hours, live streamed on Facebook and I think broadcast on Sky Arts with a celebrity sitter. I came to it a few weeks late, but I did the previous…
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First Oils from Life (Kate’s Life Drawing #1)
Kate is an artist I’ve met via my usual life drawing sessions. A couple of weeks ago she kindly setup a life session in her studio for some of the gang to have a longer session which meant I could paint and do my first oils from life – there simply isn’t time in the…
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