Although these are ‘portraits’ in as far as they portray a human figure, they are each imaginary as I sought to use a new combination of mediums to portray emotions (and, as usual, pathos) rather than a specific human sitter.

They’re all combinations of charcoal, metallic acrylic and conventional oil paints, the boldness of the metallic as an under painting elevating a very sparse amount of oil colours on top (applied with scrunched up tissue, sharply bordered through use of masking tape). The charcoal I used throughout as a kind of anchor to hold the whole thing together.