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A collection of Portraits

| Katherine Scrivens

I never set out to become a portrait painter, it just sort of happened…now I find myself painting as many portraits as Silhouettes

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Girl in red velvet
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Girl with a book
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Lady with grey hair
Portrait of HRH Crown Princess Mary of Denmark with child
Crown Princess Mary of Denmark with child – currently on exhibition at Amalienborg Palace, Copenhagen
Queen Margrethe of Denmark
Portrait of Queen Margrethe of Denmark in Gråsten Palace Garden
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Working on a Duchess of Cambridge portrait

Late summer in the studio

| Katherine Scrivens

Today, as the late summer breeze filtered through my studio door I have been enjoying some more work on this young girl portrait. Still, a little way to go, but what an exciting painting this has been so far. For the first time, I have ventured into surrealism territory by adding a 3D floating piece of paper with my trademark silhouettes. I don’t know quite where I’ll end up with it, but here’s the result so far with a photograph of a corner of our Danish terrace garden.

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Portrait in acrylic

| Katherine Scrivens

IMG_3871A few months ago my  art supplier stopped stocking my preferred Winsor & Newton oil paints. Whilst I was waiting for an online delivery of new colours I decided to mess around with a few acrylic paints I had kicking around the studio. For an oil painter to switch to acrylic painting there are many challenges. One of which is obvious – acrylics dry really fast! A real problem when working with layering glazes as I was doing with oils. The recent portraits posted here are acrylic paintings, the pressure is on to work a little faster to try to create an acrylic portrait using oil painting techniques! Here’s a recent acrylic portrait which I have tried to make appear as though it has been painted in oils.