Painting is such a personal thing. I think each of us, over time, evolves a process, an approach to …
Continue Reading about Out of My Comfort Zone: Three Portraits from Winter 2009
Inspiration and practical advice for aspiring realist artists
Painting is such a personal thing. I think each of us, over time, evolves a process, an approach to …
Continue Reading about Out of My Comfort Zone: Three Portraits from Winter 2009
In the last series of posts I covered a sight size copy of a portrait drawing ofLady Sarah Spencer …
Continue Reading about Sight Size Self Portrait Drawing – November 2009
At the end of the last post on the planes of the head, I'd mentioned that I'd done a series of …
Continue Reading about More Head Drawings – Planes and Form in Sargent Portrait Drawings
This post is picking up a thread that I dropped in April 2007, the Loomis head drawings. Most of the …
Continue Reading about Feeling the Form – Loomis and the Planes of the Head
These three drawings were done with about a month between each, and were each an attempt to …
These sketches are a few more examples of heads based on the Loomis book, 'Drawing the head and …
For the past couple of months I've been working through the beginning stages of "Drawing the Head …
Continue Reading about Constructing the head – Andrew Loomis
The write up for this drawing ishere.Back to portrait drawings …
Continue Reading about Self Portrait Drawing – 28th March 2007
The write up for this drawing ishere.Back to portrait drawings …
Continue Reading about Self Portrait Drawing – 16th February 2007
Woah! Scary-face!The write up for this drawing ishere.Back to portrait drawings …
Continue Reading about Self Portrait Drawing – 29th January 2007