A good painting has a clearness of thought behind it. When I was young, I was bewildered when a master artist could look at a work and say, change this, change that, and the painting would be stronger. I was fascinaed. It was like a hidden language to me. One I...
Creating a realistic portrait is tough stuff. Creating a realistic portrait from a photo is nearly impossible. I have been talking about issues to think about when painting a portrait. Eyebrows, proportions of the head, etc… and those are the easy things. I...
What is more elusive than a ghost during the daytime? The waterline in a photo… Painting eyes is a complicated thing because our eyes are, well, complicated. One of the coolest things is that the eyeball is wet so that the eyelid can blink overtop of it easily....
Eyebrows can be tricky. It is so tempting to paint eyebrows as just a line without thinking about what we are really seeing. So let’s break it down. When you see an eyebrow, you typically see this… I say “typically’ because there are always...
When are rules not rules? If you are an artist and have started to learn about portraiture you may have gotten bombarded by all kinds of “rules” to follow when finding the features of the head. Let’s take one example that I have been told for years:...
