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© 2008/9 Ian Haigh |
Ian Haigh Portraits in Various Media |
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© 2008/9 Ian Haigh |
Ian Haigh Portraits in Various Media |
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I like to draw and paint people. This section includes portraits, life studies are elsewhere. For drawing, I use pencil (HB with 2B-5B for shading). The drawings are usually A4 size, photographed and auto-corrected using Microsoft Picture Manager. There are also pencil drawings with colour enhancement using a variety of computer programs. There are also oil paintings and pencil drawings enhanced with oil paints. Finally there are some watercolour pencil portraits.
The work is generally in reverse chronological but with some grouping by subject and by the medium.
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On the left are family history portraits. On the right are a variety of historical figures.
On the left are Audrey Hepburn and Natasha Kaplinsky. On the right is Angela Ripon and Fiona Bruce.
Below are portraits of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo and Nelson Mandela.
Some more hisorical portraits: Charles Darwin at different ages and one of his wife Emma nee Wedgewood.
On the left we have Meryl Streep, Patsy Cline and Crystal Gayle, whilst below are Vivian Leigh (as Cleopatra) and Helen Mirren.
On the left Helen McCrory as Barbara Villiers, mistress of Charles II and Maude Adams a film star from years gone by. On the right a portrait of Joseph Readman and an unknown lady.
On the left are portraits of myself and Jessica. On the right are a lady in a catsuit and Sarah Jennings (later Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough and friend of Queen Anne). Below are Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, actress Julie Graham and newsreader Natasha Kaplinsky.
Firstly portraits of famous singers and actresses using old photographs. On the left Gloria Swanson, Alice Patten, Patsy Cline and Marilyn Monroe. On the right Kate Bush and Rita Hayworth.
Next are historical figures either based on photographs, television adaptations or from paintings or drawings by famous artists such as Hans Holbein, Sir Anthony Van Dyke and Sir Godfrey Kneller. On the left drawings of Oliver Cromwell, Mexican Artist Frida Kahlo, Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine, Barbara Villiers (mistress of Charles II becoming Duchess of Cleveland) and on the right Alice Bankes (Lady Borlase, early cookery author).
Next are more historical figures: Henry VIII and his first two wives Katherine of Aragon and Ann Boleyn.
Next on the left drawings from my family history: my grandfather, Charles Haigh; and my great grandfather, John Haigh. On the right are some miscellaneous portraits..
On the left various family members and on the right Patsy Cline and Crystal Gayle.
The Honourable Mrs Graham, after Gainsborough.
 Katherine of Aragon |
 Anne Boleyn |
 Jane Seymour |
 Anne of Cleves |
 Katherine Howard |
 Katherine Parr |
On the left are oil paintings based on portraits by Lawrence and Vermeer, whilst the one on the right is based on a portrait by Reynolds.
Below are two oil portraits of Mayan ladies.
