For many years I had a mental block about painting faces and was delighted to discover that using pastels as the medium made the job a lot easier.
Thursday 28 February 2008
Euro ‘96
Richard first got interested in football around 1995 and as well as collecting cards of football players and putting them in an album he closely followed the fortunes of the various countries in Euro ’96. One of his favourite players was Alan Shearer so I did him a pastel painting for his wall.
For many years I had a mental block about painting faces and was delighted to discover that using pastels as the medium made the job a lot easier.
For many years I had a mental block about painting faces and was delighted to discover that using pastels as the medium made the job a lot easier.
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