
Figure Painting
A couple of little figure studies from before Christmas. Fairly pedestrian in nature, but I quite like them.

Broken colour, islands of paint
Another study on the gesso panels from Zecchi. The surface and absorbency of these panels definitely facilitates a different way of laying down paint. Mainly I find that edges fuse differently, and rather than force them to blend I decided…

A Selection of Small Life Studies
Here is a selection of the very small (postcard size) oil studies that I have been doing over the last few weeks at Sarum Studio. All from life, I was using the time to experiment with different supports – various…

More Figure Studies
It’s been a while since my last post, but I have been busy in the interim period. I’ve finished another portrait – elements of which I am very pleased with – and some more figure studies. Unfortunately I’ve been let…

Portrait and Figure
First of all, I must take some better photos. I didn’t realise how fuzzy these were until I got them onto the computer. Anyway, the portrait of Andrew is the result of 10 sittings over two weeks at Sarum Studio….