Tag: paint sticks
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Portraits At The Pub 53: Mariam
Although I’ve been really busy with the hiking channel I have been keeping up mostly with the Portraits at the Pub – here’s one session from November where I struggled to get a likeness of Mariam but I think I got some good portraits nonetheless in my usual mix of media – like this paint…
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Portraits At The Pub 52: Marian, Betty and Julian
Forgot to post these from last week, it’s not often we get to draw two people at once at Portraits At The Pub, it makes it a LOT harder, because you always get one person better than the other, one likeness will be closer than the other, or you spend too much time on one…
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Portraits At The Pub 51: Greg
Sometimes I struggle in thes portraits sessions to either get a likeness or do the model justice – here it was both. I think I feel more pressure when it’s someone I want to do a good job and I find them interesting, quite often means I do the opposite. Some of these are not…
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Portraits At The Pub 50: Amy
As we reach the big 50 of Portraits At The Pub, I had a very productive session this time in a whole smorgasbord of media – paint sticks well ‘studio gel sticks’ but they are the same thing, brush pens, Lyra crayons, watercolour, technical pens running the whole gamut from abstract, expressionist, fauvist and representational.…
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Canela 3: Tony / Joker Halloween Portraits
Here’s a spooky portrait session for Halloween – and not one for those who have coulrophobia – it’s Tony as the Joker from Batman! This was a lot of fun, and rather hard painting and drawing someone with face makeup on. There are two approaches – either ignore it, or go abstract, because I know…
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Canela 2: Chinoiserie & Climate Change
I didn’t catch the name of this model from the second session I attended at Canela Cafe, it was themed in a Chinoiserie / Oriental style, with a kimono, Chinese wall hangings and a large Chinese vase. I was the only one who drew the vase according to Luis, who runs the sessions. He posed…
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