Paintings are made on Fabriano "Tela" paper (100% Alpha-Cellulosa), specific for the use of oil colours, or on 4mm thick canvas panels with cotton fabric.

The oil pigments used are from the Winton series by Winsor & Newton, used straight from the tubes, without the use of additives or mediums. The first layer is prepared by applying Amsterdam acrylics or burnt umber oil with the addition of Liquin Original.

Each portrait is performed in 4 different phases which have variable duration according to the complexity of the subject and the size of the surface:

• first phase consists in the preparation of the canvas as described above;
• second phase involves covering the entire canvas with colour to define the main characteristics of subject: drawing the shapes, defining the main areas of colour, choosing the tones;
• during third one the work becomes more meticulous: light and dark tones are defined with more precision, establishing —where necessary— even intermediate tones; each shape is treated as a three-dimensional volume and more details begin to be added;
• finally I can focus on details and small corrections, this is for example the phase in which highlights are painted (like eyeball reflection) and the hairs are drawn individually using a long brush to create soft curves.

After 3 months, each canvas is protected with an anti-UV painting varnish by Lefranc Bourgeois.

Here you can see some of my works.