Karen de la Gorce SGFA
@GorceKaren
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British artist / Society of Graphic Fine Art. Exhibited with RBA, SGFA, New Light Prize, SWA, RBSA & Women in Art Fair. A Holly Bush Prize winner ‘22
Arras, France
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#PortfolioDay
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I draw & paint fun portraits of colourful, real people in striking interiors, sometimes with pets, tattoos, accessories and often with a complicated perspective thrown in 😮
#oilpainting
#paint
#art
#artwork
#portraitart
#portfolio
#portraits
#PortfolioDay2022
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Detail - 1st colour layers going in on my self portrait.
An artist said that I had painted honest eyebrows.... a lovely term for saying I’ve still got my lockdown eyebrows & hair!

#oilpainting
#portraiture
#selfportrait
#womeninart
#womeninthearts
#peinture
#painter
#womaninart
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Detail - self portrait.
Painted during a difficult time - eldest daughter stuck in Paris alone with covid, self isolating with my 2 other children & a series of personal & professional disappointments. A tired face receding into inky darkness!
#oilpainting
#artwork
#portrait
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So *happy* to have my portrait of Miss’Jack Ink selected for the
@RoyalSocBritArt
exhibition in the
@mallgalleries
London 20 - 29 February
#oilpainting
#portrait
#tattoos
#overwhelmed
#afirst
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A sideways self portrait currently on the easel 🥸
Drawn from life in my freezing cold studio & yes, I’m wearing 2 coats, a gilet, a cardy, a jumper & a shirt - I can hardly move my arms! 🥶
#pencildrawing
#drawing
#dessin
#pencilportrait
#selfportrait
#studiolife
#winter
#art
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Self Portrait 🖤
Pencil & white conté crayon
Officially declared finished a few times, but as usual, decided it wasn’t, it maybe now, I think…..🤔😅
#pencildrawing
#drawing
#dessin
#portraiture
#selfportrait
#autoportrait
#artist
#art
#MondayMotivation
#neverfinished
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Detail : a Springtime still life on the easel 🌹
Started by blocking in some simple shapes 🎨
Flowers from my garden & staged in my studio💓
#oilpainting
#portraitart
#stilllife
#peinture
#flowers
#art
#artistsontwitter
#artist
#womanartist
#spring
#study
#fromlife
#WIP
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Underpainting - painted with Burnt Umber & Titanium White. This stage is important to me as it helps with my design, value composition and makes sure my drawing actually works !
Colours next....
#oilpainting
#selfportrait
#artistsontwitter
#womeninthearts
#womanartist
#portrait
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Work in progress 🌟
Just when I think I’ve finished, I stand back, sleep on it & push it further. Following my instincts, I shall work on it the rest of the week - it may end up in the bin !!😧😂
#oilpainting
#portraitoftheday
#portraitpainting
#art
#artwork
#CatsOnTwitter
#WIP
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A self portrait on the easel. Im not sure what’s the most difficult - painting whilst looking in a mirror for hours or looking at your imperfections for hours !!
#oilpainting
#painting
#peintre
#peinture
#painter
#portraiture
#selfportrait
#womeninart
#womeninthearts
#womanartist
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I decided to paint full time 3 years ago, but design duties crept quietly back in 🤨
Last day teaching landscape design today 🥳 & I’ve promised myself a rest & painters reset
Here’s my 1st painting as a ‘painter’ Miss Jack Ink now 3 years old
#oilpainting
#art
#artist
#Women
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💓🥳 Wonderful news 🥳 💓

Delighted that 2 of my paintings :
Today I am Frida & Clara and Nala have been selected for the
@SWAinfo
160th annual open exhibition

21 September - 31 December Online
#oilpainting
#portrait
#swaonline2021
@FridaKahlo
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Artists, show your eyes 😍🤩🥸
I love painting eyes, mouths & hands in my portraits…..especially eyes
#oilpainting
#painting
#peinture
#pencildrawing
#drawing
#dessin
#portraiture
#eyes
#FridayThoughts
#artist
#art
#geek
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I confess that I’m the worlds worst fiddler of finished artwork 🤓
This self portrait study has been declared finished at least 6 times - today I declare it truly finished…..🤔
#pencildrawing
#artwork
#drawing
#dessin
#study
#art
#selfie
#selfportrait
#womanartist
#grimart
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A fresh palette mixed 🎨
That’s my Christmas sorted !! 😵💫🎄✨
#oilpainting
#art
#artistsontwitter
#portraitart
#ChristmasEve
#Christmas2021
#palette
#WIP
#ontheeasel
#festive
#notgoingout
#HomeAlone
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A detail life study sketch - pencil & conté crayon💓
As it’s not always possible to get your sitter to sit for long, it’s important to capture the essence of the personality & the shape of the features with the minimum of marks 🌟
#Pencildrawing
#portraiture
@SGFADrawing
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New portrait - underpainting (grisaille) stage
I love this stage of the oil portrait and use burnt umber/titanium white diluted with turpentine to fix the values before colour.
I use the paint brush the same way as I would pencil 🤓
#oilpainting
#artist
#portrait
@SGFADrawing
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Portrait in progress - detail 🌟
This is how far I can go adding a simple layer of colour in a week 🎨
A long way to go, but the tricky time consuming areas have been conquered 😵💫
#oilpainting
#painting
#peinture
#art
#artist
#artwork
#portrait
#workinprogress
#womanartist
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Detail - self portrait with 1st layers just in.
A difficult stage for me as I need to step back and decide if my painter decisions are ok, if not, time for changes ;)
#oilpainting
#painting
#portrait
#selfportrait
#ArtistOnTwitter
#womaninthearts
#womanartist
#artwork
#artists
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Self portrait drawn from life, in a dark cold studio, with cold hands, pencil & white conté crayon
Less grim than the last one, but grim nonetheless 🖤
#pencildrawing
#drawing
#dessin
#portrait
#selfportrait
#autoportrait
#selfie
#smile
#FridayFeeling
#cold
#grimart
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Apparently it’s Art vs artist time of year again
#artvsartist2023
A few cropped details of a selection of paintings that I thoroughly enjoyed painting this year with a self portrait of me in the middle 💓
#ArtistOnTwitter
#artshare
#artwork
#portraiture
#details
@womensart1
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Work in progress on Last day of summer
A little frustrating this week - due to other work commitments, colours going in too slowly 😥🐌
#oilpainting
#portraiture
#art
#artwork
#wip
#Painting
#womanartist
#womeninthearts
#peinture
#graffiti
#art
#sunshine
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Self
#portrait
painted from life 🖤
Current face showing a build up of emotions over the last 6 months : epic betrayal, 2 friends with cancer & a sick daughter
The next 6 months shall be better 🌟
Detail shows actual colours 🎨
#oilpainting
#womanartist
#strongwomen
#tired
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Detail : pencil portrait of my son looking at his phone 🌟
I just love it when my family sit for me whilst I draw them ☺️
Drawn from life, further fiddled with in the studio
#pencildrawing
#drawing
#dessin
#portraiture
#artist
#art
#womanartist
#thursdaymorning
@SGFADrawing
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A big girl birthday today for my 2nd daughter 💓
Being a painter, I paint all of my children, even if they’re embarrassed & it’s a cringy thing for a mother to do 😅
Here’s a few portraits - she’s also a budding artist 🌸
#oilpainting
#portrait
#art
#womanartist
#artist
#Women
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2021 was a busy painting year - here are my
#Top9
🌟
Thank you all who’ve shown support, especially appreciated this year 💓 & to
@SGFADrawing
who have elected me as Associate member & to
@SWAinfo
whom I’ve exhibited with & support women in the arts 🙏
Happy, healthy 2022🕊
#art
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Last portrait of 2021 🌟
1st colour pass in on Clara & Nala 🐈⬛
Shall leave it as an alla prima sketch but tidy up the skin values 🎨
#oilpainting
#portraitoftheday
#art
#artist
#womensart1
#CatsOnTwitter
#Catwoman
#wip
#PaintWithLove
#paintings
#sketch
#canvasart
#WomensArt
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Quick alla prima oil sketches - a great way to prepare for larger paintings and the best way to get to know your model
#oilpainting
#portrait
#artist
#allaprima
#womeninarts
#womenartists
#womeninthearts
#feminineart
#livemodel
#portraiture
#sketch
#esquisse
#ArtistOnTwitter
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Detail of a new
#portrait
on the easel 💓
Investing MANY hours on painting a detailed grisaille and planning to experiment / try something new later when adding colour
Hopefully a success 😍 & not a failure 😨
#oilpainting
#ArtistOnTwitter
#portraiture
#sundayvibes
#art
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My self portrait 2021 - face of despair : Covid & lockdowns 😫
2022 - same face of despair : Brexit 😫
How are artists/creators/small businesses expected to survive the extra costs/taxes/paperwork/sending goods 😓
#Brexitbenefits
#BrexitReality
#supportsmallbusiness
#art
#rant
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🎉💓 BIG NEWS 💓🎉
French post just delivered a letter from
@SGFADrawing
letting me know I’ve been elected as an Associate Member - what an honour indeed 🙏
From a difficult start of the year ☠️ to a full cheesy grin end of the year 😁
Thank you 💓
#sgfa
#art
#artwork
#portrait
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Varnish day - self portrait painted the beginning of Feb when self isolating with 2 children & eldest daughter stuck in Paris alone with Covid. My face showing the stress/ worry of a mother
#oilpainting
#portrait
#womeninarts
#womanartist
#ArtistOnTwitter
#artwork
#covid
#artwork
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I often paint complex portraits that can take a couple of months to complete
But there’s nothing more satisfying & spontaneous than painting directly from life - here’s an older study of my daughter 💓
#oilpainting
#portraitartist
#art
#womanartist
#artist
#fromlife
#portrait
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Still cleaning up drawings in my portfolio & here’s the preparation sketch less construction lines of my recent self portrait
Slightly less grim than the final painting, but grim nonetheless ☠️🖤
#pencildrawing
#sketch
#dessin
#selfportrait
#artist
#brutal
#honesty
#MondayMood
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Last painting of the year - quick alla prima portrait of my daughter Valentine. Ive 2 teenage daughters at art school and it’s not easy for them right now because of the Covid restrictions. Lets hope 2021 is easier for all students whatever they’re studying
#oilpainting
#art

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Just starting to add touches of colour to Clara’s grisaille making progress with lips & nose - now she looks like she’s got a cold !🤧😲
Better hurry up and add colour to the rest of her face 😂
#oilpainting
#paintings
#portraitoftheday
#art
#artwork
#artist
#CatsOnTwitter
#cold
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Layers in on self portrait. A final finish off once the wet paint glare has dried off.
It’s difficult painting yourself but think I’ve just about captured a mother’s concern having a Covid positive child & self isolating with the 2 others
#oilpainting
#artistsontwitter
#portrait
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A new portrait of my eldest daughter on the easel 💓
Im trying to paint smarter, looser & more fast this new painting year - let’s see if I can make that happen! 💪🙏🎨😅
#oilpainting
#painting
#peinture
#portraits
#WIP
#Students
#daughterlove
#women
#tuesdayvibe
#2023goals
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I always plan my portraits carefully & have the final look in mind when I start - this portrait, however, took a couple of different turns.
From Ok grisaille, to bad colour choice, to perseverance & to final colour - I made it ! 😵💫🙏🤩
#oilpainting
#Paintings
#portraiture
#art
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Varnish day!! 🌟✨🌟
Portrait of my daughter with little Harry - detail
So happy with how the limited palette colours have woken up 💓
#oilpainting
#portrait
#art
#artist
#womanartist
#WomensArt
#womensupportingwomen
#daughterlove
#dog
#NintendoSwitch
#painting
#sundayvibes
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Today, I’m calling this a painting 🌟
Here’s a detail to show how I try to keep my limited palette colours ‘clean’ & not ‘sloshed’ or muddied on the canvas….well, at least I try !!😵💫🤨
#oilpainting
#portrait
#artist
#art
#portraiture
#artistsontwitter
#peinture
#peintre
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Close up of work in progress 🤓
My portraits are painted on tinted linen canvas and I relish the textures underneath my paint brush ! 🎨
#oilpainting
#PaintWithLove
#paintings
#art
#ArtistOnTwitter
#artist
#artwork
#WIP
#CANVAS
#sundaymood
#WomensArt
#portraiture
#portraits
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A new portrait on the easel - adding colour to some simple shapes 🎨
Artists tip 🤓 I spray my tinted canvas with a fine layer of varnish - this makes cleaner rubbing out/correcting pencil lines
#oilpainting
#portrait
#art
#painting
#drawing
#WIP
#peinture
#TuesdayMotivaton
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Emily’s portrait finished
......or, may let it dry off & come back to it ;)

#oilpainting
#painting
#portrait
#artists
#portraiture
#painting
#ArtistOnTwitter
#artwork
#peinture
#peintre
#tattoomodel
#tattoo
#womanartist
#womensart
#womeninthearts
#wetpaint
#shine
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Sparkling lipstick going on🌟
Detail - Caroline on thé Rock n Roll rug….
#workinprogress
#wip
#oilpainting
#peinture
#peintre
#art
#artist
#portraiture
#womanartist
#womeninthearts
#sparkles
#lipstick
#artdetail
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A small alla prima study of yellow tulips from the garden 💛
I shall paint some red tulips next 🌹💓🌹
#oilpainting
#painting
#peintre
#peinture
#study
#allaprima
#spring
#flowers
#tulips
#art
#artwork
#ArtistOnTwitter
#womanartist
#Easter2023
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More excitement! My home lockdown portrait of my teenage daughter Valentine “V” has been selected for the RBSA Prize Exhibition 2020. A spot of varnish today & shes ready to go!
@rbsagallery
#rbsaprize2020
#rbsagallery
#artist
#womensart
#oilpainting
#portrait
#figurativeart
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Clara & Nala 💓
For anyone who followed my last tweet - this painting didn’t make it into the bin !! 🥳
Now working on a new 2022 project & so VERY excited about it 🌟😁🌟
#oilpainting
#art
#artwork
#paintings
#artist
#CatsofTwittter
#portraiture
#portraitart
#WomensArt
#cats
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Good news! I’m so excited to announce Elise & Samir the sculpter have been selected for the prestigious
@SGFADrawing
annual open exhibition to be held at
@mallgalleries
, London 5 - 10 July. Drawing is the very foundation of my portraiture
#Pencildrawing
#artistsontwitter
#artist
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A pencil portrait worked up further from a simple sketch from life 💓
Only dry artwork for now as preparing for a major studio move in the new year
Watch this space, it’s going to be exiting creating the new Loire Classical Studio 🌟
#Pencildrawing
#drawing
#portrait
#art
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I paint portraits, but did you know I also paint still life?
I’m currently accepting commissions - please send a message if you’re interested in discussing ordering a portrait or a still life original painting 🌟
#oilpainting
#portraiture
#stilllife
#peinture
#commissionsopen
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Dreadful awful year and it just got worse 😥 everything that was just about keeping me together just fell apart. Dearest twitter friends lovely photos, drawings, paintings of cats & dogs sent my way would be much appreciated right now 🤗😭🤗 hugs to you all
#COVID19
#Nightmare
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It’s that end of year thing again
#artvsartist
where artists post some of their artworks and show they’ve actually real & have a face 🥸😵💫
#artvsartist2021
#art
#ArtistOnTwitter
#artist
#portraiture
#portrait
#WomensArt
#oilpainting
#PaintWithLove
#paintings
#Mugshots
#details
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Too many dark clouds in our world right now 💨☠️👎
So I thought you’d like to see the colours & flowers developing on my easel 🎨🌺
Detail - Caroline with ‘Guirlande de fleurs’ by Gaspar Pierre Verbruggen 🌟
#paintings
#paint
#art
#artwork
#flowerpower
#WIP
#portraiture
#Peace
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Work in progress (detail)
1st colour pass going in on ‘last day of summer’
Really enjoying this colour palette 🤩🎨
#oilpainting
#portrait
#art
#artwork
#artist
#WIP
#graffiti
#peinture
#peintre
#women
#womenintherts
#womanartist
#WomensArt
#sunshine
#palette
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1st colour layers in on Valentine’s portrait 🤩
Shall leave it to sit for a while before deciding whether to leave it as a study, or work it up further adding more layers 🤔
#oilpainting
#portrait
#painter
#ArtistoftheSummer
#womanartist
#womeninthearts
#artwork
#daughter
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Detail - Parrot tulip portrait
Background just about in - my brushes were on fire trying to blend & cover that large surface 🔥😳🔥
#oilpainting
#ArtistOnTwitter
#painting
#portrait
#Flowers
#tulip
#artwork
#womanartist
#womensart
#ontheeasel
#largepainting
#exhausting
#art
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Detail currently on the easel - portrait of flowers 🌺
When painting portraits of people, pets or flowers, I try to think of shadows, colours and shapes rather than eyes, ears or petals 🎨
#oilpainting
#painting
#artwork
#art
#artist
#portrait
#wip
#flowers
#FridayMotivation
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Happy New Year 🎉
2024 will be a big year when I relocate my family & studio to the beautiful Loire Valley
For 15 years I have practiced Interior Architecture & then full time painting in my current studio, it will be a big change!
Always follow your dreams, cheers everyone🥂
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💀🦇🕸 HAPPY HALLOWEEN 🕸🦇💀
I love drawing, it’s the very foundation of my portraiture. I often draw and redraw my models
Here’s Samir the sculptor, his model, his work & 2 extra skulls
#oilpainting
#sketch
#illustration
#drawing
#art
#halloween2021
#watercolour
#portrait
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Jose & Princess are finally finished! Totally enjoyed this challenging portrait which has been on the easel for exactly 4 weeks tomorrow. May add extra bling once dry ;)
#oilpainting
#portraiture
#portraitpainter
#figurative
#dogs
#RescueDogs
#tattoo
#artist
#womaninarts
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Apparently it’s International Self Portrait day 🥸
Here’s 1 of mine : a nice display of cracked antique, angst, total wretchedness & the usual sprinkling of grim 😩😵💫😅
#internationalselfportraitday
#portrait
#oilpainting
#selfportrait
#selfie
#november
#musings
#torturedartist
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Last day of summer ☀️🌟☀️
First colour pass in, a quick dry and then ready for a finish off
#Oil
#oipainting
#portrait
#peinture
#ArtistOnTwitter
#art
#artwork
#WomensArt
#womanartist
#womeninthearts
#Sunshine
#paint
#graffiti
#drawing
#WorkinProgress
#wip
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Delighted to be showing 2 drawings drawn from life at the 103rd Annual Exhibition of Society of Graphic Fine Art, Mall Galleries, London, March 11 - 16 💓
It’s always a brilliant & inspiring show 🌟
#pencildrawing
#artist
#selfportrait
#portraiture
@SGFADrawing
@mallgalleries
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Twitter tells me that is
#NationalPetsDay
🐕🐈⬛
I just love painting portraits of people with their pets & feel lucky to witness the special relationship they have 💓
Here’s a few I’ve painted recently….
#oilpainting
#portrait
#art
#artist
#Dog
#CatsOfTwitter
#weloveourpets
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I've been nominated by
@christoff3000
to post my art for 10 days to share positivity & our collective ❤️ of art
Day 7 - an alla prima oil sketch of my daughter painted from life 🌟
If she wishes to join, I nominate
@lyndseysmithart
#oilpainting
#Artists
#art
#portrait
#sketch
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Anne on the easel 🌟
First colour layers going in - I can’t wait to paint in her floaty, flowery top 🌺
#oilpainting
#portrait
#artwork
#WIP
#ontheeasel
#femme
#woman
#womaninthearts
#womanartist
#commissionsopen
#WomensArt
#SaturdayMood
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Feeling quite unwell this week 😷 so a day of painting which usually cures all ills
Knocked up the chroma a notch on ‘last day of summer’ & feeling better already 😎😁
#oilpainting
#portrait
#portraiture
#artist
#art
#womanartist
#womeninthearts
#feelingunwell
#arttherapy
#sgfa
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Two little faces 💓💓
Portrait in progress of my daughter & Harry our precious dog - detail 🌟
#oilpainting
#painting
#portrait
#portraitpainting
#art
#artist
#womanartist
#womeninthearts
#dog
#peinture
#peintre
#daughterlove
#FridayFeeling
#drawing
#gaming
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Detail - 1st colour layers just about in on the parrot tulips & metal table….then for some muscle brushwork on that large background 😳💪
#oilpainting
#painting
#artwork
#ArtistOnTwitter
#portrait
#flowers
#tulips
#workinprogress
#wip
#Commission
#help
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Preparation drawing vs final painting (detail) 🩵
#portraiture
#oilpainting
#pencildrawing
#peinture
#dessin
#fromlife
#study
#artist
#womeninart
@SGFADrawing
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My art student daughter Valentine next to her portrait ‘today I’m Frida’ 💓🥂💓
Excited that this portrait is included in the Society of Women Artists 160th Annual Open Exhibition 🎉
Can be viewed online 21 sept - 31 Dec
@SWAinfo
@FridaKahlo
#WomensArt
#fridakahlo
#daughterlove
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Finished! “Today I am Frida”
A lockdown portrait of my daughter Valentine after Frida Kahlo’s self portrait : Thorn necklace & hummingbird
Of course no thorns & the black cat/monkey have been replaced by 2 spoilt dogs
#ArtistOnTwitter
#artwork
#portrait
#dog
#women
@FridaKahlo
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Guardian Angel - a sketch start 🌟
To refresh my eyes, I take a break from painting on canvas & draw portraits on paper. I start by looking for shapes & work out values & composition before building up the pencil
#art
#drawings
#drawing
#artistontwittter
#wipart
@SGFADrawing
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Happy Yorkshire day !
Here’s a portrait, very much in progress, of one of my 3 children who’re half Yorkshire half French 💓
#Yorkshire
#YorkshireDay2021
#oilpainting
#artwork
#ArtistOnTwitter
#portrait
#painting
#artist
#womanartist
#women
#workinprogress
#daughterlove
#family
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She’s served me well, but I think it may be the very last drawing she does today or I’ll chop my fingers off trying to whittle her down further 🥹😅
Rest in peace my faithful friend 🙏
#pencildrawing
#contepencil
#tiny
#pencil
#pencilart
#lastday
#tired
#thursdaymorning
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Alla Prima study of the resident teenager, Willy
#oilpainting
#portrait
#painter
#portraiture
#allaprima
#study
#etude
#live
#model
#workingmum
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🌟Varnish day🌟
“The artists wife, the artists daughter, the artist”
Just loving how the dried oil colours have come to life 💓
#oilpainting
#painting
#peinture
#portraiture
#varnish
#womeninart
#womanartist
#ArtistOnTwitter
#tuesdayvibe
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Adding some paint texture to Emily’s portrait.
Thoroughly enjoying the process but impossible to photo - those darks ! 😵💫
#oilpainting
#portrait
#artistsoftwitter
#portraiture
#peinture
#art
#womensart
#womanartist
#womeninthearts
#tattoomodel
#tattoo
#pinup
#playtime
#badphoto
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Wednesday is the new Monday for a working artist mother 🎨
In France it’s the week of the ‘rentrée’ (back to school & for some, back to work)
Back to intensive painting for me 😅
#oilpainting
#peinture
#artistsonX
#workingmother
#RentreeScolaire2023
#rentree
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Portrait of Emily 🖤
I’ve painted & drawn Emily a lot over the years - she a beautiful & patient model 🌟
This must be my favourite so far - pencil & watercolour to give a light vintage look 💓
#Watercolour
#Pencildrawing
#portrait
#Artists
#women
#WomanArtist
#art
#tattoos
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Big news !! 💓
‘The Rock n Roll rug’ portrait has made the shortlisted for the
@hollybushprize
🎉
Overjoyed by this news & I had to let my dear model Caroline know straight away - we’re both uncontrollably excited 😆 🤩
#oilpainting
#portrait
#art
#artist
#womeninart
#woman
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Detail of a portrait of my daughter Valentine ”today I am Frida” - starting to build up the layers of colour over the underpainting. What fun!
@FridaKahlo
#oilpainting
#portraiture
#womeninthearts
#womanartist
#womensart
#portrait
#ArtistOnTwitter
#dogs
#miniaturepinscher
#Artist
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A little more 1st colour layer (slow) progress on Valentine’s portrait - too hot to be rushing things today 🥵😅
#oilpainting
#painting
#painter
#peintre
#portrait
#portraitpainter
#colours
#workinprogress
#wip
#artistontwittter
#womanartist
#womeninthearts
#femaleartist
#artists
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Portrait detail - drawing this profile at a slight tilt was a small challenge 🌟
The eyebrows, however, were an absolute joy! 🤩
#Pencildrawing
#pencilart
#draw
#dessin
#portraiture
#artist
#fromlife
#workinprogress
#detail
#SaturdayMotivation
#art
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Not much painting going on here due to preparing children for leaving for studies 😓
So, here’s a flashback to an old alla prima study showing my palette, process & finish 🎨
#oilpainting
#portrait
#ArtistOnTwitter
#women
#womanartist
#art
#WomensArt
#MondayMotivation
#herewecome
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On the easel - 3 tiny faces
#confinementjour25
#Corona
#lockdown
#oilpainting
#portrait
#figurativepainting
#portraitpainter
#Artist
#workingfromhomewithkids
#workingmum
#dogs
#Dog
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A portrait in pencil & conté crayon drawn from life & finished in the studio🌟
Yet another I thought was finished, but actually wasn’t….it maybe is now…🤔😅
#pencildrawing
#drawing
#draw
#dessin
#pencilportrait
#portraiture
#FridayVibes
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Varnish day for my “When life give you lemons” oil portrait 🌟
A stinky, sticky, but essential task to make those colours glow & come to life 😵💫
#oilpainpainting
#painting
#peinture
#portrait
#portraiture
#varnishday
#artist
#fun
#art
#WednesdayMotivation
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First colour pass in on Clara & Nala’s portrait. A second pass next seeking closer likeness on her face & details on the rest - the fun part !
#oilpainting
#portrait
#artist
#artwork
#portraitpainter
#womeninarts
#womanartist
#womeninthearts
#figurativeartist
#CatsOfTwitter
#cat
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1st colour pass in on ‘Needs adjustment’
This tiny face portrait in an overwhelming sea of wall next to a wonky painting is a nod to womens mental health 💓🤗
To be finished later 🌟
#MentalHealthAwarenessWeek2022
#oilpainting
#portrait
#art
#artist
#women
#ItsOkayToNotBeOkay
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2023 is finally in the bin 🥳
2023 at the start was a horrible year that thankfully improved in the 2nd half with painting, hard work, inner strength, prayer, my children, my dogs, wine & Netflix 😅
Here’s a detail of my Guardian Angel portrait who’s guiding 2024 all the way 🕊️
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Artists - what your favourite detail to paint? 🤓
Mine is most definitely the eyes & mouth 🤩
Details on the ‘Rock n Roll Rug’ who’s a finalist in the
@hollybushprize
- exhibition opening 8 June
@LauderdaleHouse
#oilpainting
#portrait
#ArtistOnTwitter
#art
#Women
#artist
#3D
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I painted a hand this morning ✋🏽
Painted so many kinds of hands, but this has to be the most rapid & satisfying one ever! 🤩
#oilpainting
#painting
#peintre
#peinture
#portrait
#art
#portraitpainter
#allaprima
#study
#artist
#womanartist
#MondayMotivation
#hands
#wetpaint
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Happy Easter everyone! As I don’t have any old paintings of bunnies I thought I’d post an old favorite study of mine, Mary’s robes. As I’m obsessed by folds of fabric, I painted this purely for my own pleasure
#oilpainting
#artist
#painting
#Easter
#EasterSunday
#fabric
#Alleluja
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