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Category: Portraits
Portraits in pencil & sanguine. Drawing & studies of faces & portraits in watercolour & oi painting. Portraits of young children.
The Likeness Part of a Portrait – Watteau
To master the capturing the likeness part of a making a portrait, try doing the same head three times. Can you maintain the likeness consistently in all three drawings? I am humbled by Master Watteau. Not only three drawings but three different angles as well. And look how beautifully laid out on the page they…
Portrait Drawings in Charcoal, Sanguine & Pencil
Was happy to be able to pay attention to the profile in these portraits. Which point comes the furthest forward? Is the lip further forward than the bridge of the nose? That sort of thing. Also, to do several portraits of the same person. Do…
Here & Now
teacher taking a breather
Watercolour Portraits Using the Direct & Indirect Methods
‘M’ watercolour Quarter Imperial Sheet © adam cope Painting into the dusk. Fading light. Blur & indefinition. When the self feels its way into the soul of the world. The feelings that pass between artist & model.A strictly limited palette. Three colours only. Winsor & Newton. Artists Viridian, Indian Red, Permanent Magenta. The tonality is…
pencil portraits in graphite
Some pencil portraits in graphite A5 sketch book. ©adam cope
E – drawings of a child
‘e’ Graphite A5 sketchbook – detail © The Artist. ‘portrait of e’ Graphite A5 sketchbook – detail © The Artist. “Every child is an artist.” oh yes later on : see this child when she is older
Sanguine Portrait of a Child
‘Sourire Toujours’ Sanguine Portrait of a Child A3 Hanhemaille ‘Nostalgia’ © The Artist. Been off holidaying with my wife & two young children. Family time. We went to Britanny, near Carnac with its standing stones (which really caught my boy’s imagination!) & its beautiful silver sand beaches. We stayed with some good old friends, a…
Issigeac People
A5 sketchbook A5 sketchbook these may (or may not) amuse any local readers out there… recognise before & after the local elections? A5 sketchbook
Self 6 – ‘at the end of the day’
Self #6 – ‘ at the end of the day’ 2008 Watercolour. 24 x 32 cm © The Artist. ‘…at the end of the day.’ Using up paint at the end of the day. Just practising my craft. Painting with speed. Practising painting portaits — quickly. Nothing psychological. It could have been you … or…
