Padrino
Profile
I’m am a semi-professional artist from the East Riding of Yorkshire, UK. I specialise in pastel life studies and my style has evolved naturally through trying to get realism but avoiding photographic reproduction. I never enhance or ‘tweak’ my subjects. I portray them as they are. All I do is look for the beauty that is already there and capture it in a lasting image.
I’m probably not alone in this, but there is a magical moment in the creation of an image where I am so lost in the process that the form lifts off the paper towards me. That is the moment that I wait for. It is fleeting and priceless. I know that I’m nearly there then. If I can carry on and not make a pig’s ear of the rest of it (and if I stop fiddling!!) I get a worthwhile piece of art.
Note:
I’ve editted the first line of this profile to delete ‘largely self-taught’ because none of us are really. We all stand on the shoulders of giants. We all take influence from others, especially when exposed to the inspirational brilliance of artists on this site.
■Images Do Not Belong To The Public Domain. All images are the copyright of the artist – © Alan Stevens. All Rights Reserved. Copying, altering, displaying, distributing and/or selling any image without prior written consent from the artist is strictly prohibited and subject to any and all legal remedies.
Groups
Padrino is a member of * Painted Ladies *, Contemporary Pastel Painters (2 per day) and The Artistic Nude.
