tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81284784007851113832024-03-14T00:35:53.993-07:00Stan Hurr PortraitsI am a professional portrait artist; on this blog I post about how I work to create <a href="https://www.stanhurr.co.uk">portraits from photos</a>, and about my inspiration. Stanley Hurrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17192275322375325772noreply@blogger.comBlogger68125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8128478400785111383.post-79845501012403411212019-09-20T04:09:00.002-07:002019-09-20T04:09:45.284-07:00Progress of a group caricature<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Stanley Hurrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17192275322375325772noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8128478400785111383.post-52241907427068297792019-09-20T04:04:00.000-07:002019-09-20T04:04:45.453-07:00Progress of a sanguine portrait<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Stanley Hurrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17192275322375325772noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8128478400785111383.post-43958253573146621522019-09-20T04:02:00.000-07:002019-09-20T04:02:51.232-07:00Progress of a charcoal portrait.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Stanley Hurrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17192275322375325772noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8128478400785111383.post-68650271532258801102019-05-15T06:37:00.000-07:002019-05-15T06:39:32.029-07:00Progress of a big group caricatureI thought it would be of interest to show the stages of the method I used for doing a very complicated<br />
multiple caricature for an army regiment I did recently. ( watercolour 24x20 inches)<br />
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Stanley Hurrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17192275322375325772noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8128478400785111383.post-84897160382270571372018-11-20T11:30:00.002-08:002018-11-20T11:30:56.594-08:00Teach Yourself to Draw 5SIMPLIFY!<br />
To tackle any drawing the 1st move is to simplify the scene you are faced with.<br />
Look past the surface and see the basic form. The details can wait till the drawing is just about done, then the details effortlessly fall into place like the icing on the cake.<br />
This is why, practising the basic forms - Cube, sphere, cylinder, cone and gesture drawing helps to acheive<br />
this ability to see beyond the superficial.<br />
It is THE beginners mistake, focusing on the details and not seeing the true forms.<br />
Turn your drawings from 2D to 3D. Get that 3rd Dimension,that is what makes drawings stand out and<br />
gives them life.These preliminary sketches by an Italian master Luca Cambiaso were his way of working out the forms that were to make up complicated paintings.<br />
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gs.Stanley Hurrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17192275322375325772noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8128478400785111383.post-82115012675562084482018-11-12T11:46:00.001-08:002018-11-12T11:46:43.801-08:00Teach Yourself to Draw 4Gesture Drawing has been a very important technique for me.I like to see spontaneity and life in the work I admire. Gesture drawing has helped me to develop a fearless approach to drawing. Looking for the essential gesture of the subject, be it animal, vegetable or mineral. Going for the essence as fast as possible is exhilirating. Sitting in airports waiting for a flight is a perfect place to draw people on the move, even those sitting reading change position very quickly. So the rapid continuous line is the only way to grab that movement, that pose. All those quick sketches build up a great memory bank of images.Here are some from one of my sketch books that I always have with me wherever I go.<br />
The very rapid sketches by Rodin of Cambodian dancers are typical gesture drawings.<br />
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Stanley Hurrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17192275322375325772noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8128478400785111383.post-62539205285708554632018-11-05T10:31:00.000-08:002018-11-05T10:31:22.176-08:00Teach Yourself to Draw 3These are the key techniques that have been the biggest help in enabling me to learn to draw -<br />
<u>Simple Forms -Cubes, Spheres, Cylinders, Cones.</u><br />
Briefly - Practising these forms till you begin to see them everywhere, you begin to simplify and see these forms, usually a combination of, in every object, in a face, in a forest, in a street.<br />
<u>Gesture Drawing</u><br />
- Or fast sketching. Drawing the `gesture` of an object, a person, whatever is in front at any time.<br />
Always carry a sketchbook and quickly sketch the scene in seconds, waiting for a plane, train, etc.. great fun. No fussing, get it down, take a snapshot with the eye and don`t worry what the drawing will look like.<br />
<u>Negative & Postive Spaces</u><br />
- Seeing & Drawing the spaces in between things.`Negative` spaces are as important as the `Positive ` forms. You must get both right to draw convincingly.<br />
<u>Artistic Anatomy</u><br />
- Learning the human form, with endless practise, becoming familiar with the most complicated entity in the universe! The great masters studied the human form rigorously, with a sound<br />
3D knowledgeof the human form everything else becomes easier.<br />
Buy - `Drawing on the Right-Side of the Brain` by Betty Edwards.THE best drawing techniques book of all time.<br />
See - `Proko` on YouTube. Definitely the best drawing techniques on youtube - and great fun!<br />
Awesome, brilliant work from 2 of my favourite American illustrators - Bernie Fuchs & Noel Sickles - look at those negative/positive spaces! All hand drawn & painted in the 50,s, 60`s.<br />
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<br />Stanley Hurrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17192275322375325772noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8128478400785111383.post-15673078450533379142018-10-29T11:52:00.001-07:002018-10-29T11:52:43.903-07:00Teach Yourself to Draw 2Learning to draw is a long, steady process. In fact it never ends! People ask me - `How long would it take me to learn to draw?` I say -` A lifetime`. Even after nearly 40 years I still feel like a beginner, especially when I see the work of the really great masters - which I did a few weeks ago at Kenwood House in Hampstead, London - Rembrandt & my big hero Frans Hals.<br />
I`ve seen many keen beginners give up after a short time. Its that first big hurdle of self-doubt that stops them.<br />
I can remember giving up several times at the beginning. Throwing my art materials on the floor in an angry fit of frustration.<br />
It took me years to be able to sit at my easel and draw or paint for a whole day. What some call the`muse` comes to help. The ability to concentrate, to be in the `zone`, when time passes & one is lost in a deep,<br />
focussed, concentrated state of being, similar to meditation. I don`t have to be in the right mood to draw,<br />
as soon as I sit at my easel and start to draw I am off and don`t want to be interrupted for the rest of the day.<br />
As in learning to play a musical instrument , it is best to do a bit every day, it could be a session of 2 hours or just 10 minutes sketching on a park bench. 15 minutes per day is better than 3 hours once a week. The mind will give up protesting that this a waste of time and start to enjoy this pleasant unusual daily habit.<br />
I love drawing & thank God that I have an occupation that I never tire of doing, so don`t give up!<br />
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<br />Stanley Hurrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17192275322375325772noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8128478400785111383.post-86774459104289643512018-10-25T03:32:00.001-07:002018-10-25T03:32:31.759-07:00Teach Yourself to Draw No1. How do artists manage to draw such complicated scenes, objects, people etc.?<br />
By simplifying. Learn the basic forms - Cube, Cylinder, Sphere, Cone. Then you will be able to see through the surfaces and draw the underlying forms. It was a revelation to me, With practise (daily if possible) you<br />
can see these forms everywhere you look and draw even complicated things by simlpifying them down to their basic shapes, their real 3D forms.<br />
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Stanley Hurrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17192275322375325772noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8128478400785111383.post-2375973416385939792018-10-15T10:34:00.000-07:002018-10-15T10:34:04.916-07:00Teach Yourself to DrawI`m coming up to 40 years as a professional artist. I have no degree, I am self-taught, or rather, I have learnt from the thousands of artists who have gone before me.<br />
So now I feel it is time to pass on what I have learnt and how I learnt and how I ended up busy doing portraits, caricatures, illustrations - 99% on command and rarely without a project on the go.<br />
This blog will be dedicated to helping people to learn how to teach themselves to draw, which is easier now than when I first started, now online there are so many learning resources-but how to proceed?<br />
My goal is to lead the beginner through the confusing mass of drawing techniques.<br />
40 years ago,desperate for guidance, I went to public librairies for books on drawing techniques, luckily,<br />
as I was living in New Zealand at the time, they had access to American books and one of them was a revelation to me, it explained one the `secrets` I could not understand - how did artists create drawings that<br />
looked 3D?<br />
These are the actual words that, as Americans say, knocked my socks right off! -<br />
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<br />Stanley Hurrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17192275322375325772noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8128478400785111383.post-17350884204081752622017-08-30T07:23:00.002-07:002017-08-30T07:23:43.570-07:00Valentin Serov (1865 - 1911)Serov was, in my very humble opinion, the greatest ever Russian portrait artist.<br />
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Stanley Hurrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17192275322375325772noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8128478400785111383.post-90798518400929536222017-08-01T10:52:00.001-07:002017-08-01T10:59:40.100-07:00Sir John Tenniel (1820-1914)Was a political cartoonist at Punch magazine for most of his creer but is known for his superb illustrations for Lewis Carrolls - ` Alices Adventures in Wonderland`, `Through the Looking Glass and what Alice found There` and `Jabberwocky`. I never tire of looking at them, grotesque, funny and straight out of a wierd dream world, perfect for those amazing stories.<br />
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Stanley Hurrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17192275322375325772noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8128478400785111383.post-45503349809191736182017-07-26T00:52:00.002-07:002017-07-26T00:52:58.026-07:00Live portraits & caricatures at Edgware<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">4 charming people sat for me last weekend at The Broadwalk Edgware - a young couple from Rumania. a Ghanaian lady & an 88 year old lady with the spirit & attitude of an 18 year old.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">I will be at Luton this Friday 28th & Saturday 29th.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">For more dates of live appearances - </span><a href="http://www.stanhurr.co.uk/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-color: white; color: #365899; cursor: pointer; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">www.stanhurr.co.uk</a><br />
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Stanley Hurrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17192275322375325772noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8128478400785111383.post-89919138973919146442017-07-24T11:08:00.002-07:002017-07-24T11:08:37.618-07:00Hans Holbein the Younger (1497- 1543)Holbein was a German artist who became the court painter for Henry VIII. He was known for his very precise likenesses. `The Ambassadors` ( can be seen at the Tate) has many symbolic references, including the strange distorted skull. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Holbein_the_Younger<br />
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Enjoyed drawing these 2 lovely girls at Weston Favell last Saturday.The girl with the bun sat like a statue for me - maybe a career as a model? The girl with the long hair ( OK I did get a bit carried away!) was on her break from working a till at Tesco.<br />
I will be at The Broadwalk in Edgware this weekend - 22nd & 23rd July.Then Luton Mall the next week - 28th & 29th.<br />
See my site for further dates - www.stanhurr@gmail.comStanley Hurrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17192275322375325772noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8128478400785111383.post-2377235470867021182017-07-18T11:14:00.002-07:002017-07-18T11:14:50.477-07:00Sir Anthony van Dyke (1599-1641)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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For my money one of the greatest portrait artists of all time, if not the greatest of them all. He deserved his job as the court painter to King Charles 1st. His triple portrait of him was for Bernini in Rome to help in sculpting a bust.Stanley Hurrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17192275322375325772noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8128478400785111383.post-55383738530247774832017-07-13T07:30:00.004-07:002017-07-13T07:30:55.958-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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More amazing Barcelona Gaudi.You either love him or hate him! Gaudi was run over by a tram at the age of 74 on his way to church in central Barecelona. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoni_Gaud%C3%ADStanley Hurrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17192275322375325772noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8128478400785111383.post-21692252337955039692017-07-12T01:34:00.002-07:002017-07-12T01:34:48.765-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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People come from all over the world for the visual feast of Antoni Gaudi`s (1852-1926) fantastic buildings.Deriving from his passionate religous faith & his love of nature, his buildings are inspired by organic, natural forms. Totally original, like something from a fairy tale.The Sagrada Familia is his biggest project, that is still not finished,it is estimated to be completed in 2026 as in the imagined aerial view photo.<br />
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Elian Lima is a Brazilian lady who does face painting & runs a busy restaurant at the Observatory shopping centre in Slough.<br />
Dali the Clown (Mr Karen Mkrtchyan) is an Armenian and does spectacular balloon sculpting at the same place.<br />
I say thanks for coming to live in our country and bringing fun, colour, invention and (especially in Elian`s case!) beauty.Stanley Hurrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17192275322375325772noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8128478400785111383.post-65710060139072494212014-03-28T13:35:00.002-07:002014-03-28T13:40:44.805-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This is the second caricature I have done of Chris ( see one of my first blogs in 2009), who is a well known and loved character in Luton. His amazing laugh is used as a ring tone.He asked me to draw him as Usain Bolt but with the `lunch box` of Linford Christie!Stanley Hurrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17192275322375325772noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8128478400785111383.post-48378346848362400922014-03-19T01:07:00.002-07:002014-03-19T01:07:56.826-07:00<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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It was a pleasant surprise to meet fellow fans of the work of Japanese animation artist Hayao Miyazaki, not very well known in the UK but a household name in the rest of Europe, his films are mind-blowing, specially films like `Spirited Away`. Great to meet you Priti & Jas.Stanley Hurrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17192275322375325772noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8128478400785111383.post-62783887790005533622014-02-26T05:58:00.002-08:002014-02-26T05:58:34.322-08:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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There`s a lot to take your breath away in Florence, so much beauty left to us from 600 years ago.<br />
These tiny angels on one of the main doors of the Cathedral really stopped me ( Donatello?). Such grace!<br />
My son Dominic is studying at The Russian Academy there for a year, lucky man!<br />
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I was well impressed by these simple geometric forms at Serpentine Green in Peterborough, Christmas decs with a lot of style & simplicity.Stanley Hurrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17192275322375325772noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8128478400785111383.post-85550099172818086512013-11-18T06:43:00.002-08:002013-11-18T06:43:38.463-08:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Had a real good chin-wag with this 86 year-old Liverpudlian as I drew his portrait. He`d recently lost his wife and felt lost and didn`t know how to fill the days. As happens so often as I go around shopping centres, it can be humbling to hear peoples stories.Stanley Hurrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17192275322375325772noreply@blogger.com0