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Portraits

I love doing demos at my weekly portrait class and we sometimes tackle well known faces. I often get asked by my students how I get a true likeness in my portraits. It's all well and good drawing a convincing head but getting it to look like the subject is a whole new set of challenges. For me it's about getting the specific relationships between the features. Small inaccuracies matter a lot more than people expect. Here’s how I typically approach it: Miriam Margoles - Paste

How to mix flesh tones using 3 colours

In my regular sketching class recently we were drawing our hands, a great exercise in working from life -after all our hands are probably...

I am sometimes commissioned to paint people to mark importrant landmarks in their life and I have tried to do the same for my kids over...

My New Years resolution for 2023 is to try and draw from life every day even if it's just for 5 minutes. Admittedly, it's not going to be...

It’s always a real pleasure when a returning customer gets back in touch. This beautiful young woman in her national Japanese costume...

Being a portrait artist I'm always in need of a model so my own face is the obvious choice- I'm the only person who is always willing and...