JON PAUL WILSON

Joined Artfinder: Aug. 2016

Artworks for sale: 26

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United Kingdom

Updates from JON PAUL WILSON's studio

  • Step by Step Oil Painting Portrait

    Oil Portrait - The individual Painting Stages at each sitting. The first still image demonstrates my process of gridding the canvas to accurately draw the portrait, it is important to accurately draw the outline to capture a likeness of the person you are portraying. You can see i have created a smaller grid around the eyes, this is to focus in on the important area of the eyes. I create a an underpainting using fast drying oils such as burnt umber and they are painted in thin /lean layers to begin with; it is always advised to paint fat over lean layers. Next you will see at each sitting here im blocking in areas of colour, i intend to add glazes toward the end of the painting so the under layers and blocking in needs careful consideration. You may notice at these early stages i leave and don't paint on the areas i intend to highlight especially the glint of light on the glasses. I am also adding layers of paint, it is similar to sculpting to capture the likeness of the person, the outlines and shading will create a differnt shape of the face so i carefully build this up to work on the form. I start to create accurate oil colour by matching the oil, i mix my colours and actually paint onto a separate piece of primed card and hold this up to my reference so i can see if i have the correct colour; this accurate colour matching is helpful and i can focus on each colour and not think too much about temperature, the saturation, lightness, darkness, tone and even the oil pigments i'm using; if i can match the colours like for like and do this across the painting, the paint may harmonise and be a better representation. Out of interest, I understand that each human eye may see colours slightly differently, i see more saturated colours with my left eye. A handy oil painting tip which has saved on me hours - i lay my oil paint out on my palette in the same order, light to dark - warm to cool, each time i paint and at the end of each sitting my glass palette can be placed in a freezer. This has many benefits; it saves on expensive oils, i can paint in smaller time frames and pre mixed colours may be ready to use when i need them. Towards the end of the painting i concentrate on edges, if you carfeully observe the edges from the start of the video compared to the end of the video you can see the differences. i hope you find this brief description of my process interesting and in future i intend to take more detailed videos of each step. For your reference my oil paints for this portrait were: Titanium white, Cadmium yellow, Lemon Yellow, Cadmium Red, Geranium, Magenta, Burnt Sienna, Burnt Umber, French Utramarine Blue, Prussian Green. If you are interested in commissioning a portrait please visit my website for further information :

    26 February 2024
    Recent painting of Filey

    Recent painting of Filey

    Oil on canvas

    01 February 2024

    Seascape Oil Painting

    Seascape oil painting - canvas size 40 x 30cm.

    19 December 2023

    Self portrait

    Self Portrait

    29 March 2023
    Verbena Meadow

    Verbena Meadow

    Oil painting on board

    29 March 2023
    Portrait

    Portrait

    This is a recent portrait painted on a hardwood board.

    10 September 2021
    Inspired to Paint in Alderney

    Inspired to Paint in Alderney

    Please visit again to see the the new Alderney paintings i have in mind.

    13 June 2018
    Inspired to Paint in Alderney

    Inspired to Paint in Alderney

    Alderney in the Channel islands - Longis Bay

    13 June 2018
    Studio Layout

    Studio Layout

    20 February 2018
    Portrait - Oil on canvas.

    Portrait - Oil on canvas.

    01 March 2017
    Recent Portrait

    Recent Portrait

    Oil on canvas

    01 March 2017
    Horse Pasture Wood

    Horse Pasture Wood

    03 January 2017