The Sunday Art Show - Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Week - Dame Mary Beard

This week, I show you how I created a portrait painting of Dame Mary Beard for week 9 of Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year. You can see the finished painting here: https://mike-jory.pixels.com/featured/dame-mary-beard-portrait-painting-mypaotw-mike-jory.html Materials used: A2 Daler-Rowney mixed media paper, Winsor & Newton watercolor markers (turquoise and magenta), Chroma Inc Atelier interactive acrylics: alizarin crimson, french ultramarine blue, cadmium yellow, titanium white, burnt umber, Synthetic brushes (flats and round flat)

The Sunday Art Show - How to paint a landscape using a water brush

This week, I paint a landscape in watercolor using a waterbrush that is inspired by a hidden valley near Exeter in Devon. Tall reeds, trees, hedges, fields and hills all feature in this expressive, impressionist landscape painting. See a high resolution version of the painting here: https://mike-jory.pixels.com/featured/long-reeds-and-trees-in-english-valley-watercolor-painting-mike-jory.html You can see various home decor items featuring this design here: https://www.redbubble.com/people/mikejory/works/52430181-reeds-and-trees-in-valley-surreal-watercolor-painting?asc=u Materials: Daler Rowney mixed media paper (A2), Winsor & Newton Professional Watercolors: Alizarin Crimson, Ultramarine Blue, Cadmium Yellow, Burnt Umber, Permanent Rose, Synthetic Water brushes (flat and round), paper towel

The Sunday Art Show - Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Week - Professor Green

Week 8 of Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Week and for this episode I create several quick sketches using ball point pen and alcohol-based marker then do a painting that you can see here: https://mike-jory.pixels.com/featured/professor-green-musician-rapper-portrait-painting-mypaotw-mike-jory.html Other paintings / drawings from the video: Owl: https://mike-jory.pixels.com/featured/owl-drawing-mike-jory.html ; Beaver: https://mike-jory.pixels.com/featured/beaver-drawing-mike-jory.html ; Cattle on Dartmoor: https://mike-jory.pixels.com/featured/1-black-cows-on-dartmoor-mike-jory.html Materials used: Daler Rowney mixed media paper, ball point pen (blue), Winsor and Newton alcohol-based promarker (cool grey), metallic blue acrylic paint, conventional acrylic (fluorescent pink, fluorescent red, fluorescent yellow, fluorescent blue, titanium white); interactive acrylics (alizarin crimson, ultramarine blue, cadmium yellow, burnt umber, titanium white), synthetic flat and round brushes

The Sunday Art Show - How to paint a warthog and wildebeest in watercolor

Episode W of the Animal Alphabet Challenge. Using sharpie marker pen and watercolor, I paint a Wildebeest and then do a painting of a Warthog. See the finished Wildebeest painting here https://mike-jory.pixels.com/featured/wildebeest-painting-mike-jory.html and the finished Warthog painting here: https://mike-jory.pixels.com/featured/wildebeest-painting-mike-jory.html Materials used: Sharpie marker (black), Daler Rowney mixed media paper (A4), Winsor & Newton professional watercolours (Alizarin crimson, Ultramarine blue, Cadmium yellow light, Burnt umber), synthetic brushes (round mop, round point, round flats)