Artist's Back to Basics

Artistic Licence

I always do drawings of my photographs and plan my subjects using artistic licence … the photographs are used only for reference.

From a very young age, I always liked to paint and draw. My first lessons were at the age of 13 years. I learned the basic principles of tone, form and perspective; beginning with charcoal

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