Excuse the clickbait headline, but I make no apologies because I’m not even exaggerating. My recent introduction to the technique of cross-polarization for photographing artwork has turned a challenging and frustrating task into something I now look forward to, because the process really IS like magic. Read on if you’re interested in learning how to …
In this video, I paint a plaster cast of an ear using just raw umber and titanium white.
Every so often I like to experiment with a limited palette, and the Zorn palette (or Apelles palette if you insist), is probably the best known, and one that’s always fun to come back to. I feel like I have a better grasp of it with every painting I use it for.
I’ve got into a bad habit of relying on Instagram for sharing new paintings, but I realise not everyone is on there, so I thought I’d share some recent work here…
In this timelapse video I paint an alla prima oil portrait of an old man with a long grey beard.
In this timelapse video I paint an alla prima portrait study in oils.
This is the second of three paitings based on the game The Secret of Monkey Island.
I’ve been a big fan of point and click adventure games for as long as I can remember, and it all started with one very special game, which was released for the Amiga when I was 10 years old – The Secret of Monkey Island.
I had my 40th birthday last month, so I thought I’d paint a self-portrait to mark the occasion.
I gave my website a bit of a makeover recently (go and check it out if you’re reading this in an email), and it made me realise there were a few paintings I had never posted. One of them was this portrait of BBC Radio Sheffield’s Paulette Edwards, which she selected as 3rd place in …
UK healthcare workers on the frontline are risking themselves daily without adequate protection to care for sick patients with COVID-19. In an effort to raise some funds for Masks For NHS Heroes, I am holding a raffle for my two oil portraits of The Iceman, Wim Hof (see below).
In this video, I sketch in Procreate using a variation on the Reilly abstraction method.
In this video, I sketch a profile portrait in Procreate using a variation on the Reilly abstraction method.
This is the tenth in a series of portraits called Teachers of a Self-Guided Artist. Check out the intro post The Self-Taught Myth to read more about it. This post is about one of my most recent teachers, as Adam’s course was only released in October 2019 (in fact the second part of the course is not yet available). …
