Drawings

There’s a maxim in traditional art academies that if you want to learn how to paint well, you must first learn how to draw.  If you can draw well, you can paint anything. Drawing is in fact the foundation of every realistic painting. 

I agree wholeheartedly. A drawing enables me to work out a composition and the value relationships in the shapes in and around the subject. I feel the exercise of drawing before painting strengthens my visual memory as well. 

Many of my paintings begin with a careful sketch that I later transfer to a panel or canvas for painting. 

Below is a selection of my favourite drawings of heads and figures.