Telly Fans 10
Posted on March 7, 2011
Telly fans 9 – Child Portrait Tips
Posted on March 5, 2011
Getting the age right is an essential part of a portrait, especially for a portrait of youth. Portraits of old age are easy in comparison! For example, wrinkles. Wrinkles are a clue that indicates the age of the sitter. Their presence in a drawing or painting are frequently due to the simple fact of just too many marks & strokes i.e. a lack of an economy of means, which is the ability to get it right first time.
My fellow-painter friends who do portraits for money tell me that flattery works every time. They consciously take ten years off the resemblance by knowing the markers that indicate youth & tweeking them.
QUESTION : Can you identify the elements in the above drawing that indicate the age of the sitter?
(I reckon there’s about ten of them)
tellyfans 8
Posted on March 1, 2011
Brambles
Posted on February 27, 2011
Oil on MDF panel
41 x 33 cm (approx 12,5 x 17 inches)
© Adam Cope
A session in the studio repainting this plein-air piece. Red & blue, no?
I like brambles a lot for their vigour & pioneering life-force. This was an over-grown patch by an abandoned house, rich & melodious in bird song.
Path at the End of Winter
Posted on February 24, 2011

‘Chemin, Cornus – Fin de Hiver’
Medium Size Oil on Canvas
61 x 45 cm (approx 24 x 18 inches).
© The Artist
cornus = dogwood