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Episode 7 produced a fleck of a pink shortlist - three girls on the shortlist with a dominant pink tinge to the portraits with colour, a graphite cartoon was accompanied by a brilliant pink scarf and the background included some very stiff pink!

Lucy Fall, Annie Lee and Catherine Noone waiting to find out the winner of Episode vii
- who each describe or painted ane of the sitters

The Artists, Self-portraits and Sitters

I'm offset to think the descriptions should be Students, Amateurs and Professionals.

Professionals

• Hun Adamoglu(Facebook | Twitter | Instagram) - video - took 4 days to create his cocky-portrait which was about his connexion to his Cypriot heritage.
• Neequaye Dsane (Dreph) (Facebook | Twitter | Instagram) - video - He has an Art, Pattern and Media degree and is as influenced by comic books as former Masters. He's well known equally the street artist Dreph and has worked for three decades producing street based painting in Asia, Africa, the UAE, Central and Due south America and throughout Europe. He produced street murals - do accept a await at his websites and in particular at his giant portraits in the street. He now produces giant murals for publicity for events eg Idris Elba's flick Yardie and Michelle Obama'southward book 'Condign'.  This is his webpage about painting Jamael Weston

he is best known for his large-calibration murals and oil paintings. His portraits and their accompanying backstories nowadays an alternative narrative, a tribute to living unsung heroes and heroines.

• Lucy Pass(Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | Pinterest) - video -  She paints inside a certain constrained palette and also draws.  She's from Lancaster, draws and paints great eyes and confessed to being a large fan of Steve Mangan! Non a lot more than virtually her on her website.
• Khushna Sulaman-Butt (Instagram) - video  - Born in Lancashire. Graduated in 2016 from Oxford University with a BFA Fine Art. Creative person-in-Residence, Kensington Aldridge University (the schoolhouse at the foot of Grenfell Tower).  Currently doing an MA at the Slade. I recognised her straight away equally she was selected for the BP Portrait Accolade Exhibition in 2017.  Her portrait was of a group of the friends she fabricated, while studying at the Ruskin Schoolhouse of Fine art, Oxford Academy.  I met and interviewed her at the time - meet BP Portrait Honor 2017: Artists with their paintings
• Phil Tyler (Twitter | Instagram) - video - an experienced British painter who has exhibited his piece of work throughout the U.k. who is also an Art Lecturer at the University of Brighton - which I guess is why the idea of a whole 24-hour interval to paint sounded such a luxury to him. He has exhibited in the ING Discerning Eye, Imperial Institute of Oil Painters, The Lynn Painter-Stainers prize.  He was also shortlisted in the 2018 Estrus - and lost out to the eventual winner of the Portrait Creative person of the Yr 2018.

Our lecturer Phil Tyler starred on @SkyArts Portrait Artist of the Twelvemonth on Tuesday 📺

He painted actress and presenter Angela Griffin 🎨 Bang-up work Phil 👍 pic.twitter.com/ndjNymJhIn

— University Brighton (@uniofbrighton) 28 March 2019

Amateur Artists

There were 4 amateur artists - two of which ended upwardly in the shortlist - and one of them won!

• Annie Lee  (Annabella Lee) (Facebook/ Twitter / Instagram) - video - Took her art A Level a week after the heat. At present studying at Central Saint Martins. Spent an hour plotting features before starting to paint.
• Catherine Noone (Instagram) - video - Widnes based Animator, Illustrator and Designer. Attended the Manchester School of Fine art for an MA Illustration with animation
• Emily Sharples - video - educatee and part-fourth dimension hairdresser; about to outset an Art Foundation Course at Camberwell
• Sharon Wright - video - A retired receptionist who lives in Suffolk. She is a regular painter who prefers to paint from life. She'south a member of the local art society who entered for the prestige of the programme.

The Sitters

The sitters for Episode seven were:

• Angela Griffin - a well known actress who worked for many years on Coronation Street earlier condign involved in other serial such as Lewis.
• Gina McKee - an English actress who won the 1997 BAFTA TV Award for All-time Actress for Our Friends in the Due north
• Jamael Westman - an actor who Graduated from London's RADA (Royal University of Dramatic Art) in 2016 and has the pb function in the American musicalHamilton in the Westward End

The Cocky Portrait Review

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Discussions and Observations

The improve the sitter the improve the portrait

The artists were very lucky with these three sitters - they all maintained very steady poses - with no slouching, twitching or nodding off!

That said they might not have been there for some of the artists because they were only looking at their technology.

How rude to paint from technology!

Watching Portrait Artist of The Year on @SkyUK and it'southward such an insult to the life models that this people utilize a bloody tablet/phone to take pics and only employ that. What an insult.

— 🏳️‍🌈Heidi 🏳️‍🌈 (@HeidiTaylor86) 27 March 2019

There was a comment from Sharon in the episode to the effect how rude it was to the sitter to pigment from applied science when they had taken the problem to sit - without moving - for the four hours that the artists got to paint. I agree. To be presented with a model and not to utilize that opportunity to paint them from life seems to me to be pretty featherbrained.

Moreover I don;t think the judges are a fan of engineering science unless used in a practical fashion as just ane of your tools.

That said I practise well empathize why artists have iPads and the similar. They besides have to debate with an enourmous number of people passing by and continuing inbetween them in the artist. You don't see very much of this in the plan - but just watch all the videos of the individual artists and you'll see exactly what I mean. And so the artist needs something to do when they can't see the model!

I studied all the Vimeo videos - which provide a speeded upward uninterrupted view of each creative person completing their painting and watched to meet :

• whether they used technology
• where they fixed the technology
• what impact it had on their painting

Interestingly I think some of the artists did themselves no favours by neglecting to bring a proper support for their iPad or iPhone if they were using it every bit a reference.  You need a fixed betoken of reference. This is where the unmoving model comes in!!

I created a chart of what seemed to me to be their use of technology and their success in getting a likeness. (By which I mean substantially whether the draughtsmanship is good rather than whether all the colours are spot on)

This is what I came upwardly with. It also reflects in role the comments of the Judges (eg Tai'southward comment on Khushna'south portrait)

The principal thing I noticed when we looked at the painting from higher up - and could come across the prototype and the iPad next to one another was that he proportions were all wrong.

Tai fabricated a comment - which I agree with - about the fact that people were either:

• non looking advisedly plenty
• not standing back to check what they'd done.

	APPROACH TO PAINTING/Cartoon
LIKENESS	From life	Tech (drawing)	Tech (painting)
Good likeness	Annie (painting) Lucy	Annie (60 minutes 1) Catherine
Likeness most in that location	Neequaye		Neequaye (check tones)
Likeness needs resolution - i or more fundamental weaknesses	Phil (l:50) Sharon Hun		Phil (l:fifty) Khushna

What was worrying to me were those painters who didn't seem to appreciate the bug with their painting.

I adopt those who know they've non got what they needed to achieve or just found the whole feel a bit as well much.

I'thousand ignoring the face up for the moment because it'due south too overwhelming

Size of the Painting

As often happens people were working on supports of a very different size. Some went large and some went small. They then had to choose how much to include. Yet over again everybody ducked hands. Only Phil attempted the whole figure - and was going well but was hampered by the fact that he couldn't go the likeness in what had become a tiny head.

There'southward a lot to be said for painting a very skilful pocket-sized head - with the emphasis very much on the words "very good". (It's only likeMasterchef - if you become simple you must produce excellence)

Size - and proportion - of the Caput on the Canvas

I noted that artists who failed to go a good likeness had often painted heads which were too modest or malformed.

What I also noticed is that people were getting the proportions of dissimilar parts of the head badly wrong.  It'southward non enough to exist good at painting eyes and mouths. You must too know the relative size of features to the whole and from one to the other.

• 1 artist basically flattened the skull of the sitter suggesting a lack of knowledge of basic dimensions of the head
• some other consistently got the width relative to the pinnacle wrong and placed features in the wrong identify
• angles and shapes were consistently drawn desperately

Tai commented that failure to slow down, stand back and reverberate on what yous've done relative to what you should be looking at explains a lot about why people go wrong.

I appreciate that information technology'due south non easy in that space to pace backwards and forwards - but it is essential. Even if yous sit down you must get up periodically and check what you've done from a distance.

One reason I think they got things incorrect was because the format of their support and the format of their technology were different.

Information technology can get very disruptive if you don't create a boundary within which to work which echoes the format of your reference.

TIP: If you regularly use photos as a reference try this play a trick on:

• make certain the format of the photo is identical to the back up y'all are using eg.
• foursquare to square is the easiest to go correct with phones
• my mini iPad gives me 16cm x 12cm = 4:3 ratio
• Y'all can mensurate the format on your phone of tablet to piece of work out what support to piece of work on or what boundaries to plot
• use an app to get a grid from which to piece of work and so grid up your support to suit

This explains why Annie spent an hr on her cartoon at the beginning getting placement of the face up on the canvas and the placement and proportions of features right - then was able to spend the rest of her time painting from life, secure in the knowledge she had a skilful baseline drawing

Bottom line - similar anything else in life, time spent at the beginning on looking and sizing upward and measuring proportions and angles is rarely fourth dimension desperately spent when it comes to portraiture.

There may only exist four hours - but yous tin

• either cull to spend that fourth dimension wisely
• or rush in and beginning painting and then realise after the event that this was not a wise motion!

Proficient paintings vs skillful likenesses

How many paintings practice you need to paint?  For me, unless discarded rapidly at the beginning for a bad start, multiple paintings are a sign of:

• either a failure to spent time LOOKING carefully at the showtime
• or an artist who has a major total-on panic.
• or both!

Two artists produced multiple canvases.  Phil produced three and finally started to get Angela'southward likeness at the end - even if the proportions were however wrong!

You lot become a improve likeness quicker if you look long and difficult and carefully at the offset - then y'all go to salvage fourth dimension considering you lot don't have to first over - and starting time another painting and get panicked about whether you will have enough time. Then at the end of the mean solar day those who showtime slow can often spend their iv hours wisely!

The claiming of peel tones

Skin tones are hard to get right - any skin tone yous're painting because they all change depending on the light - and if the light changes likewise it gets doubly difficult!

Knowing how to get colour into pare that is constructive rather than random is a technique that only some artists can pull off. More often than not those who have been painting for a long fourth dimension.

However every television visitor has learned it demand to be diversity conscious.Consequently you can 100% guarantee that the models for a portraiture competition will e'er - across the contest as a whole - include people who don't have an Anglo Saxon heritage.

In this estrus at that place were two people who had a mixed heritage groundwork.

Your part in the challenge presented by this competition is to arrive having tried painting skin tones which are different to your own (whatsoever that might be) - and there are as many skin tones as in that location are paint mixes - so y'all won't exist completely thrown if you go a model with a skin tone that you are unfamiliar with.

Your primary mission is to know how to convey color in dissimilar skins so it doesn't look flat and dead. Nosotros very definitely had at to the lowest degree a couple of people in this episode who were caught out badly by the skin tones.

What should I practise/practice/make it advance?

• Brand yourself a recipe book of peel tones to refer to when you're under pressure. Information technology saves fourth dimension!
• Bring a protractor (a measuring musical instrument, typically made of transparent plastic or drinking glass, for measuring angles) and Check the angle of different parts of the caput which you tin come across in front of you with the angles you've laid downwards on your support and revise every bit required.
• Read almost portraiture and how to place a head on a support. (My own mental checklist is optics on a thirds line - usually the one a third from the meridian - and ideally on the sweet spot. Information technology's boringly predictable but information technology's in general it's a safe choice because it works if you're simply going to do the head or the head and a bit of upper trunk.
• Study and learn the typical proportions of the head - from all angles - and how each of the features relates to the others.

My proportions crib canvas!

Decision Time

Sitters get to cull the portrait they'd like to take home

• Jamal chose Neequaye's portrait- I doubtable because it was the most finished portrait and maybe considering it meant he had a portrait of himself painted past Dreph. He said he loved it!
• Angela chose the third painting by Phil - which took him an hour to do. I think she was just bowled over that everyone could produce a portrait in an eye
• Gina chose the painting by Annie - which came as no surprise to me.  She said it captured the spirit of my personality.

Things the Judges liked

Overall there was a feeling throughout the solar day of people nearly getting a likeness but not quite.  Hence beneath I've got some points which weren't positive points at the terminate - but had been raised as queries during the twenty-four hours

Judges were impressed by:

• artists who await difficult and really examine what makes their sitter unique
• artists who brand good judgement calls on proportions in their under-drawings
• capturing the mouth and expression at rest actually well
• the expert use of color in paint
• emotional representation of the sitter
• artists who keep their absurd and don't panic - and go along their focus equally a issue

Judges queried

• whether an creative person is a i trick pony in terms of color palette (more than a question than a criticism)
• the utilize of outline - but them around to it at the terminate as it served to lift the head off the page

Judges were less impressed with:

• people who did non await carefully enough
• fundamental errors of drawing the head
• errors in drawing which remain uncorrected due to a failure to review and compare at a distance

The Shortlist and Oestrus Winner

Waiting for the announcement

Catherine Noone, Lucy Pass and Annie Lee

The Shortlist

The Judges noted that all

Review of the shortlisted portraits

Self portrait and portrait of Jamael Westman past Lucy Autumn

Tai described it as a portrait of a pensive head. Everybody started the day by drawing his head too small - simply she corrected it.

They idea that Jamael was her perfect sitter for her - a romantic sense that was contained.

Cocky portrait and portrait of Angela Griffin by Catherine Noone

Catherine kept her focus and at some point during the day had introduced an objective distance into her drawing which served to elevator information technology off the folio.

Self portrait and portrait of Gina McKee by Annie Lee

Annie is very good at observation and test. The comment fabricated was that Annie had responded to Gina's likeness without slavishly trying to follow information technology and in doing so has made a work of art which too happens to exist a bully portrait of Gina.  Tai thought it a wonderful achievement for somebody then early in her career.

Episode 7 Winner

The youngest artist won the heat because the Judges chose Annie Lee as the Heat Winner.

She was described by Tai as having been very receptive to her sitter which resulted in a portrait which shows great empathy.

In my opinion, she too produced the most consummate portrait with the best likeness of a model who has a quirky look which is non easy to capture.  The painting of her mouth was exquisite. Annie's use of the beetle in the necklace as a motif in the background 'sealed the deal' every bit she introduced an element of personality into the portrait and fabricated it more meaningful for the sitter. Small wonder then that it was chosen past Gina McKee to have home.

My gauge is that Lucy ran her a shut second - and that if she'd tackled Lamael'south hair she might maybe have won.  Catherine also bottled on the hair. Both got the outline in but fabricated very niggling progress with the vacuum they enclosed.

Annie is a natural artist with a real talent. She has a very skilful agreement of portraiture and a mature approach to developing her work - despite that fact she was only 18 years old at the time and was sitting her A level exam in Fine art a week after. It just goes to show how good she is. I expect to see her work in the art exhibitions of national art societies and and major fine art competitions in London in the future.

Annie Lee hearing that she has won the Heat!

Her swain shortlisted artists were also both very free about her skills and thought her a worthy winner,

VERY SADLY The video of her painting for some reason has been made two seconds rather than two minutes - so I'thou going to include information technology here and then have a quiet remonstration virtually this off screen!

ANNIE LEE: Time-lapse painting on Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Twelvemonth 2019 from N9 Design on Vimeo.

More Learning Points re. Sky Arts Portrait Creative person of the Year

PLUS below are my blog posts from last year which contains lots of learning points about painting in this contest for those aspiring to compete this yr.

Learning Points re the 2019 competition

• Review: Episode 7 of Portrait Artist of the Year 2019
• Review: Episode half-dozen of Portrait Artist of the Year 2019
• Review: Episode 5 of Portrait Artist of the Yr 2019
• Review: Episode 4 of Portrait Creative person of the Twelvemonth 2019
• Review: Episode 3 of Portrait Artist of the Twelvemonth 2019
• Review: Episode 2 of Portrait Creative person of the Yr 2019
• Review: Episode one of Portrait Artist of the Year 2019
• Call for Entries - Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year 2019

Learning Points re the 2018 Competition

Below are my PREVIOUS blog posts virtually the 2018 competition and my reviews of the heats, semi-finals and terminal - in which I comment on specific aspects for aspiring futurity contestants!

• Call for Entries - Sky Arts Portrait Creative person of the Year 2019
• Review: Heaven Arts Portrait Artist of the Year 2018 - Episode i
• Review: Episode two of Portrait Artist of the Twelvemonth 2018
• Review: Episode 3 of Portrait Artist of the Yr 2018 (now updated with the interview with the winner)
• Review: Episode 4 of Portrait Artist of the Year 2018
• Review: Episode five of Portrait Artist of the Year 2018
• Review: Episode 6 of Sky Arts Portrait Creative person of the Year 2018
• Review: Episode 7 of Portrait Artist of the Yr 2018
• Review: Episode eight of Portrait Artist of the Yr 2018
• Review: Semi Finals of Portrait Creative person of the Year 2018
• Review: The Concluding of Portrait Artist of the Year 2018

How to watch if you lot don't have Sky

• How to sentinel Sky Arts - Portrait Artist of the Year 2018 without subscribingto Sky!

How to watch PAOTY 2020 LIVE!

• Call for Entries: Portrait Creative person of the Year 2020 (entries take now closed)
• The PAOTY Expedition to Battersea Arts Centre

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