An excellent portrait artist working today is Jamie Coreth, who graduated from Oxford with a degree in Archaeology and Anthropology before studying the arts at the London Atelier of Representational Art, Charles Cecil Studios, and finally the Florence Academy of Art. Soon after, he was awarded the Young Artist Award at the National Portrait Gallery London's BP Portrait Awards for his piece Dad Sculpting Me, a portrait of his father, a sculptor, painted as he was being sculpte

Completed during the Thanksgiving-to-Christmas crunch time and snow in between, Project #4 became one of my most rushed. After completing a slightly more involved underpainting than I normally do, it dawned on my how little time I actually had to actually apply color and detail. I started with the face, going against Tommy Van Auken's caution of going for "dessert first," but I anticipated it being the most important part and wanted to give myself as much time as possible. Si

While I struggle to find anything I would change about my Paris trip last spring, I do regret one thing: not seeing Guillaume Bresson's exhibit while at Versaille. Bresson, a preeminent French figure painter currently working in New York. A master of staging and movement, Bresson is described as "both a painter and director." His hyperrealist, baroque-derivative paintings explore conflict and violence in the modern world through a classical lense. As described in his Versaill