Portraits
My colour portraits are mostly mixed media and currently the main ingredient in the mixture is coloured ink. To that I often add gesso and then whatever is to hand - acrylic paint, coloured pencil and chalk. I have recently got back to oil painting - so some oil portraits will appear soon. The sitters are family and friends and faces from my memory.
Recent Portraits
Amanda Coloured ink and acrylic paint 60x42cm Framed
Sam Coloured ink 60x42cm Unframed
Coloured ink and acrylic paint 60x42cm Unframed
Self Coloured pencil 60x42cm
Four Years Old Coloured ink and acrylic paint 60x42cm
Teresa Coloured Ink 60x42cm Unframed
Self Portrait Coloured ink and paint 60x42cm Unframed
Helen Coloured ink and Gesso 60x42cm Unframed
Maggie Coloured Ink and coloured pencil 60x42cm Unframed
Four! Coloured ink, gesso and acrylic paint on paper 84x60cm Unframed
Sam Coloured ink and gesso on paper 84x60cm Unframed
Amanda Coloured ink and gesso on paper 84x60cm Unframed
Teresa Coloured ink and gesso on paper 76x60cm Framed
Good Morning Amanda! Coloured ink and gesso on paper 76x60cm Unframed
My brother Andrew with some of the characters from his own paintings. Mixed media including - Ink, gesso and coloured pencils
Black and White
This gallery has pencil drawings and white chalk, charcoal and black ink wash drawings. Drawing with pencil is a wonderful way of studying a face and finding all the lovely details - a tiny dimple where a smile starts or the shape at the corner of a mouth before someone talks or frowns. The things that make a face familiar. The charcoal and ink drawings here are more results of exploring faces looking at the way that light plays the kind of moods each interaction creates. These drawings are produced quite quickly sometimes in as little as half an hour - whereas I work on a pencil drawing for days.
Young Teresa Black ink and gesso on paper 60x42cm Unframed
Andrew Pencil on paper 60x42cm Unframed
Sam Pencil on paper 60x42cm Unframed
Maggie Pencil and coloured pencil on paper 60x42cm Unframed
Fraser Black ink and gesso on paper 42x60cm Unframed
Young Teresa Charcoal on paper 60x42cm Unframed
From memory Charcoal on paper 60x42cm Unframed
Self portrait Black ink, gesso, biro and coloured pencil on paper 60x42cm Unframed
Teresa Chalk and charcoal on paper 84x60 Unframed
Smaller Portraits
