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Save the date: New English Art Club Exhibition at the Mall Galleries
I am delighted to share that one of my paintings has been selected for the annual exhibition of the NEAC (New English Art Club) at the Mall Galleries
Dancing Colours (Celebrating Mazowsze Dancers)
I am happy to finally share with you my new painting celebrating traditional Polish folk dance: Dancing Colours.
Painting with Fred Crayk
As we are about to enter a second lockdown in England, I am taking a look back at my Summer project with Fred Crayk at Heatherley’s School of Fine Art.
Heatherley’s Annual Exhibition
The Heatherley’s Annual Exhibition has just fimished, let’s take a look back at the works I exhibited.
Learning from painter James Bland
What I learned from the Heatherleys project with painter James Bland
Artist of the Week challenge compilation
As lockdown measures in the UK are being lifted, I thought I’d take a look back at the paintings I did for the Artist of the Week Challenge organised by Sky TV on their Facebook channel. Every Sunday during nine weeks the Artist of the Year programme invited a guest sitter to pose for four…
Second week of Sky TV’s Portrait Artist of the Week challenge
Last Sunday, Sky TV’s second week’s guest sitter for the new Portrait Artist of the Week challenge organised by Artist of the Year was author and writer Bernardine Evaristo, whose novel Girl, Woman, Other won the Booker Prize 2019. I couldn’t resist painting Bernardine’s huge smile – that’s probably my first portrait ever showing teeth, as I was always worried that…
Joining Sky TV’s First Portrait Artist of the Week challenge
Joining hundreds of artists in a portrait painting challenge. Last Sunday Sky TV launched the first-ever ‘Portrait Artist Of The Week’ challenge on Facebook Live. The organisers of the yearly contest Artist of the Year had the idea to unite painters from all over the world in a new weekly portrait painting challenge. Every week they invite a…
Revisiting an etching by Lucian Freud
A different way to look at an admired artist’s work I am very fond of Lucian Freud’s etchings, so I decided to paint this study after one of his etchings from 1985 titled Girl Holding Her Foot.I painted this figure looking at the image upside down, in order to focus better on shapes and forms without too much interference of…
Two female portrait studies, from greyscale to colour
The first portrait I painted under the turtorship of Atul Vohora at Heatherley’s was a black and white study, or rather a study using grey tones, from very dark to very light, mixed out of black and white oil paints. Working in monochrome presented similarities with my previous printmaking project, and allowed me to create a…
Discovering Printmaking – Part 3: Monotype
After etching and aquatint, now is the time to share with you a third printmaking technique I learnt with Hilary Daltry at Heatherley’s: the monotype. Monotype is a printmaking technique which, unlike etching and aquatint, yields only one good impression from each plate before the ink is used up. This makes monotypes inherently unique. A monotype is made by drawing on glass or a…
A break from painting: printmaking part 2: aquatint
After sharing my experience with hard ground etching (see my previous post on the traditional line etching technique here), now is the time to share with you my introduction to the Aquatint technique, during my printmaking project with Hilary Daltry at Heatherley’s. Aquatint is a type of etching technique developed at the end of the 18th century that produces a range of tones rather…
A break from painting: discovering etching
Today I am writing about a very exciting project I had at Heatherley’s: a 3-week introduction to printmaking! Tutored by Hilary Daltry, we began with etching, a traditional printmaking process by which a design is incised onto a metal plate and further bitten into with strong acid or mordant. Images 1 and 2 above show how the design, a self-portrait, is created in intaglio (incised) using…
My first project at Heatherley’s with sculptor Tony Mott
My first three-week project at Heatherley School of Fine Art was surprisingly was focused on sculpture rather than painting!
Mini Drawing Marathon at the Royal Drawing School
Yesterday I attended a mini drawing marathon organised by the Royal Drawing School in London and joined tutors Marcus Cornish and Ishbel Myerscough in two mini workshops. The Drawing Year End of Year Exhibition 2018-19 was also on display
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