I am a portrait painter based in Sevenoaks, Kent, painting commissioned portraits for a range of clients in the UK and overseas. My studio is 30 minutes from central London. The portraits are painted in oil on traditional linen canvas with the finest hand-made paint and materials. In addition to oil on canvas portrait painting, this site contains dry media portraits in pastel, red chalk and charcoal as well as figure studies from a life drawing group I run in Kent.
Portrait paintings will live on long after the portrait painters and portrait sitters have gone. Well made canvas portraits often last for centuries as personal works of art and heirlooms for future generations. A portrait is an interpretation; a view from one moment in time that can endure with lasting value across time. These portraits, painted in my Kent studio just outside London, are all made with time-served painting techniques extensively derived from traditional practice.
Portrait paintings will live on long after the portrait painters and portrait sitters have gone. Well made canvas portraits often last for centuries as personal works of art and heirlooms for future generations. A portrait is an interpretation; a view from one moment in time that can endure with lasting value across time. These portraits, painted in my Kent studio just outside London, are all made with time-served painting techniques extensively derived from traditional practice.
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The portraits here begin with an underpainting that is built up in a series of glazes.
The shadows are deepened and white is introduced to develop strong lights and delicate halftones.
Colour is applied once the tones are fully established.
The underpainting gives the portrait a tonal foundation that can increase the depth and naturalism of the finished work.
On leaving Ravensbourne Art College in the late nineteen seventies, I worked in Fleet Street, drawing portraits of political figures for the national and international press.
The shadows are deepened and white is introduced to develop strong lights and delicate halftones.
Colour is applied once the tones are fully established.
The underpainting gives the portrait a tonal foundation that can increase the depth and naturalism of the finished work.
On leaving Ravensbourne Art College in the late nineteen seventies, I worked in Fleet Street, drawing portraits of political figures for the national and international press.
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