PAINT A PORTRAIT – PART 3: OILS

Welcome to the final part of my portrait series. We’ve spent two workshops bashing out backstory, sketching, working out colour compositions, then photographing a model, before we nailing down a detailed working sketch. Was all this prep worth it? Ask Frank Frazetta, who would spent weeks mulling over ideas and colour sketches before painting a picture, sometimes in a single night. He knew the importance, and so did his collectors, who today willingly bid millions of dollars for his paintings.

“What an amazing thing to create something from nothing…”

Frank’s story validated my own approach, which is to paint pictures to be proud of for a lifetime. Almost all my paintings are in private collections, but one, Solomon’s Loss,