Artistic Realism Art Studio

An update on the Portrait of Ankong that I am currently working on. Here, the face is almost finished.

As mentioned in Portrait of Ankong – Stage 1, Faith will be doing the hair, clothes and background. I will be finishing my part of the portrait first before she does hers. But as this stage shows, she has already started working on the hair and clothes .

I took a holiday break and only resumed work on it way after Christmas . But during the break, I got back to the outline of a still life drawing which has been lingering for quite some time in the composition stage. I’ll post it here soon. I’m kind of slow, but I’ll try to change all of that this year as part of my New Year’s resolution. Anyway, it’s just to show that I was not totally idle while enjoying the holidays.

David

Continued with the skin tones — adding more detail and getting the likeness closer to the reference. The lips are too red in this stage, but that will be fixed later on. I also worked on the background and used 4 kinds of greens.

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From the Art Studio,

Faith

On the easel, I am working on a portrait of my grandfather (father’s side). Because it’s quite large, my sister, Faith, will be helping me with this. She will render the hair, clothes, and background while my part will be from the forehead up to the neck. This is quite an experiment since this is the first time we have collaborated on a single portrait. Here is the cropped version of the first stage to show the progress of the portrait so far. I am using graphite pencil on Canson Grain paper. The size is 46 x 61 cm (18″ x 24″).

From the Art Studio,

David

Worked on the hat some more. I am now adding greens and blues to the skin. I have also started the shirt as well as the underpainting of the background.

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From the Art Studio,

Faith

A little update today. I worked on the underpainting for the skin tones and started the hat.

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From the Art Studio,

Faith

Stage one of a new pastel painting — a portrait of my very good friend.

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Medium: Pastels

Paper: Canson Mi-Teintes (Terre de Sienne)

Size: 28 x 36 cm (11″ x 14″)

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From the Art Studio,

Faith