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Head #48 of my 100 Heads.

This was Emma Thompson in one of my favourite films, Stranger Than Fiction - she is brilliant! I used just colouring pencils in this one to try out a soft, harmonious look, on the background of blue A4 card. I quite like the relationship between the foreground and background in this piece; had the background been white, I don't think it would have worked as well.

Pencil, Charcoal Pencil on 8.25” x 5.5” Archival Sketchbook Paper

Based on https://pin.it/1aXMjmb

Little nephew whose name is Leo counts as an ISO cat too! Big cat!

19 AUG 2023

Meadhbh standing while clasping her forearm. Two drawing details along with two in-progress scans of my technique: red Bic pen layer first, then green layer and finally the yellow ink layer. Bic4 Ballpoint Pen on Archival 9” x 12” paper. Model: Meadhbh (Maeve).

Inspired portrait from Troye's single 'Take Me Home' from spring 2020 - combining with his first EP 'TRXYE'. Charcoal pencils and red oil paint used to complete this.

This is another way of working that I really like. Fine liners and chalk (colour) pencils were predominantly used, with a quick smothering of acrylics for her scarf and coarse posca pen marks for the jumper :). About the subject, Handmaid's Tale was one of those rare books that I read more than once growing up and it stayed with me, hence why I decided to draw Margaret Atwood (not seen the series yet though but I hear good things!). I accidentally had her hand cut out while penning the figure - still working on my scale and composition!

Patternz - series 1 - April 2018

Urban Sketching in Madison Square Park led to this piece "Girl with a Hat".

Coloured pencils

Side Face Sketch by Oz Galeano Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/arte_ozgaleano/ Buy your custom Portrait: https://www.fiverr.com/s/6WzyVL Donations: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/ozgaleano Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@OzGaleano/videos Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Ozgaleano Shop: https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/ozgaleano/ TIK TOK: https://www.tiktok.com/@oz_galeano Behance: https://www.behance.net/ozgaleano

Procreate Pocket on iPhone. You can watch the animated build here: https://youtu.be/CQyOOF8XRfg

Drawing from a reference photo

Wednesday wind-down time! Took a wander to my local coffee shop and came back with this. A job well done I’d say :)

I draw a face a day for 30 days in different mediums and in different ways.

Monochromatic portraits using blue gel pen

Marker and coloured pencil on marker paper.

Donna was one of our best models in Victoria, B.C..

A test piece to see how Conte pencils took to newly acquired black paper.

Lockdown hair! A self portrait

Part of the drawing a day challenge. A challenge I set myself......it's not easy!!

One of my friends cut their hair and I was so obsessed with it that I had to draw it so here it is. Its inspired by the owl house

beach dreams, mosquito realities.

30 x 40 cm / acrylics, oil + some splashes of nail polish on canvas

Patternz - series 2

I was feeling listless about this inktober until I picked up Daily Rituals : How artists work by Mason Currey. I immediately knew that I want to do these portraits for the inktober. FRANCIS BACON. At the end of these long nights, Bacon frequently demanded that his reeling companions join him at home for one last drink - an effort, it seems, to postpone his nightly battles with insomnia. Bacon depended on polls to get to sleep, and he would read and reread classic cookbooks to relax himself before bed. #inktober #portraits #francisBacon