Nico Rosberg
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Here’s my painting of the 2016 Russian GP winner. Think we’ll get a different winner this time…
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Valentino Rossi – Day 6 (Finished)
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Here’s the completed painting. I added Jorge Lorenzo on the third bike, with a grandstand in the far distance. Apart from that, today was just a matter of adding “bling” – specular highlights here and there, smoothing off some jagged edges where they weren’t appropriate, thin highlights on the edges of panels, a few more…
Valentino Rossi – Day 5
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The nice thing about an opaque medium like oil paints is that you can scrape back and repaint an area if you aren’t happy with it. I’ve done that here with Vale’s helmet. I’m still not entirely over the moon with it, but it looks better than it did before. Those black lines are especially…
Valentino Rossi painting – day 4
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See here for Day 3 of this project. I’ve been doing some studies to figure out the correct angles on the kerbing and to figure out how big to paint the bikes in the background. I need Rossi to look like he’s on the correct racing line coming out of the previous corner of course,…
Valentino Rossi painting – Day 3
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Here’s where I was up to on this painting when I left it on Sunday. The next stage is to continue defining the forms by adding more detail. I don’t want all the painting to end up with the same level of detail. The focal areas (the front of the fairing and the helmet) should…
Valentino Rossi painting – Day 2
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Here’s a reminder of where I got up to yesterday with this painting. Today I concentrated on trying to improve the underlying tonal design and making sure I have described the forms correctly, by which I mean all the areas in shadow are darker than any of the areas in the light, regardless of their local…
Valentino Rossi painting – Day 1
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Today I started on a new painting, a picture of Valentino Rossi. I thought I would post photos of my progress as I go along. This feels like a bit of a risk, because the painting might not work! I’ve already come up with a plan for the painting. On this occasion I worked up…
“The Race” walkthrough
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Today I thought I’d take you through the process of creating my painting “The Race”. The inspiration for this painting came from an interview I saw on the BBC website with the guitarist and ferrarista Chris Rea. He was describing his first experience of watching Formula 1 on TV as a child, the Monaco Grand…
“The Race” limited edition giclee prints
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Today I have released limited edition giclee prints of my latest painting entitled “The Race”. It portrays the 1961 Monaco Grand Prix, featuring the Ferrari 156 of Wolfgang von Trips on the downhill section between Mirabeau and the Station Hairpin. This is the famous “sharknose” Ferrari that dominated in 1961 and won the World Championship…
