John, Brockweir, 10. 11. 2015.

Three five minute warm ups in charcoal.

Three five minute warm ups in pencil.

Oil on used canvas board, four hours approx. to be continued next week.

Jackie, Usk, 06. 11. 2015.

The model did not show up so Jackie kindly stepped in.

The sketch is oil on used canvas board and was all I could acheve in the time of about 80 mins.

Jackie asked if I would take a photo and carry on working on it, at first I said no but then decided to give it a try. I worked on it for a further 10 hours.

Mum and me, October 2015.

Working from photos and both to have more aork especially Mum.

Brockweir, 04. 11. 2015.

Two fives and a ten minute warm up in pencil and pen.

Carrying on from two weeks ago using a different range of colours.

Rastafarian , 28th 29th october 2015.

Oil on canvas painted from a photo over two days in approx 13 hours.

to be continued.

Andrew James three day oil painting portrait course at Portishead'

a six or seven hour oil sketch after watching Andrews two hour demonstration below.

A monochrome oil sketch on the first day.

Three charcoal drawings.

Andrews charcoal drawing.

Usk, 23. 10. 2015.

80 minute oil sketch on used canvas.