This week I’m conquering my fears and focusing on portraits so since I’m on a portrait roll, here’s another portrait reveal which I painted recently. I used my cousin as a practice subject and injected some old world Shanghai charm into it.
For me I’m treating my portraits like my other subjects, which is my way of visual story telling. I do spend a lot of time reflecting and talking to my art, it’s a personal conversation I have in my head that is then translated onto paper. Sometimes the translation works, sometimes it doesn’t but every piece is a step forward, ok sometimes sideways or backwards but always moving, always learning and growing. .
People tell me I’m a natural and I’m so good at art, no I’m not a natural and I’m not good at art, I’m just determined to follow a passion and put in the practice to get good at it. A good example is nobody was born naturally able to run or walk, you spent years practicing how to walk and then to run. How far and how fast you can then run depends on your passion.
Art is my passion and I will run a marathon for it.
Once upon a time in Shanghai…
Acrylic on paper
Size A4
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June 18, 2020 at 17:34
Thank you. They were fine. Typically asymptomatic. never felt a thing. Thank God. 🙏🏻
June 18, 2020 at 13:13
Definitely need to stay vigilant!! Hope all is well and that your daughter and son in law have both recovered x
June 5, 2020 at 18:43
Which is why I had cut off all news since July last year. Happy. Now with this virus thing, I’m back on it. I need to know what sanitary regulations will be enforced in Europe in the next few months. Then I’ll drop out of news completely.
June 5, 2020 at 07:31
Ya true, sometimes ignorance is bliss indeed