Painting Portrait Tips / Lots of information about how to paint a portrait
Here you see some of my watercolours. People asked me if I could teach watercolour. It sounds strange but I hardly know myself what I am doing. There is to much secret in this technique. I learned a lot by looking to other artists.
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We walk almost every day around our village Chelva. Now is the time to find wild asparagus. This is the harvest of this afternoon. Baked in a tortilla. Delicious!
Last week I started a new demonstration in the series How to paint a portrait.
This video is of a little boy. I think to publish it before summer. Hopefully together with the demonstration of the portrait of a man.
Edouard Manet painted his sister-in-law Berthe Morisot more than once. In this portrait “Le Repose” he shows his evident affection for her. I think the speculation that Berthe and Edouard may have enjoyed more than romantic feelings is obvious.
Who knows more about this relationship ?
Malyavin, portrait of Somov.
A couple of years ago when we were in the Russian Museum, St Petersburg, I was able to take some pictures of this marvellous portrait of Somov by Malyavin. These were the last pictures I took before two stern-looking ladies, museum attendants, asked if I had a permission to do so. Of course I did n´t. I had to show my passport and visa. Luckily I seemed to convince them that I was not a professional photographer and after an hour and a half they let us go. Later on I will show some other pictures that I took earlier that day.
