Tag: portrait
Portrait painting
Picking up paints again after a very long hiatus. I can’t say it feels like returning to an old friend. Painting always seems like a fencing duel to me – one in which you never quite know the rules. This study is just a progression from doing a lot of pencil portraits. I’m just trying to get better at drawing faces.
Painting like this is completely different to drawing. It feels alien, but my new found portrait/face study knowledge helped me get a result I’m reasonably happy with.
I think about the above a lot when painting. I was never taught to paint, but surrounded by many people who learned it academically. This always makes me feel like an outsider, or that I’m doing it wrong.
All I know is it’s just a journey and you have to ignore the doubt. Just listen to your own inner voice and follow that.
Amanda Portrait
Continuing the quick pencil portraits, my friend Amanda.
Diane
This was a challenge. It’s hard enough drawing friends, but drawing a friend when asked by her partner of many years – knowing exactly how her smile looks and squint of the eyes, every facial expression. How does one capture all of that faithfully?
Pencil and conté crayon on paper.
Portrait of actress Ida Gyllensten
Being a fan of 50s/60s kitsch art, have been playing with a contemporary way to create this type of art featuring modern iconic people. Some famous, some not. This is Ida Gyllensten, actress and singer. Drawn in pencil and crayon.
Ida is a friend from wild days in London in the mid-noughties.
Ida is a phenomenal actress. The Guardian said of Ida’s Magdalena in Scandi Noir ‘End of Summer’:
Magdalena is overly protective of her youngest son and cruelly dismisses her daughter. Some of those flashback scenes are beautifully dream-like, before they dissolve into nightmares.
It’s currently on BBC iPlayer.
https://idagyllensten.se/english
https://dreamingofislands1.bandcamp.com/album/dreaming-of-islands
Lana Del Ray
Being a fan of 50s/60s kitsch art, have been playing with a contemporary way to create this type of art featuring modern iconic people. Some famous, some not. More to come.
Drawn in pencil and crayon.
Violent Violet
Literally just doodling with Procreate ‘lightsabers’ as I call them. It turned out with a pretty good likeness of the cat, so posting it here.
Moose never would’ve hurt her
Charlotte Rampling as Velma in Farewell My Lovely.