Over the course of six episodes, the work of six artists will be featured, capturing the portrait process through different mediums from underwater photography to street art.Īrtists featured in Extraordinary Portraits include: Roxana Halls, known for challenging how the depiction of women in art the portrait painter behind Portraits For NHS Heroes, Thomas Croft photographer Christy Lee Rogers, who will be creating a portrait via an underwater photoshoot and famed hyperrealistic artist Kelvin Okafor, whose pencil portrait for the series took 650 hours to complete. In episode three, Dale Grimshaw, an artist who creates street murals with a fine art approach, works on a piece for sitter Patrick Hutchinson, a personal trainer from South London who was photographed carrying an injured English Defence League member to safety during a Black Lives Matter demonstration in 2020.Įlsewhere in episode four, hyperrealistic portrait artist, Caroline Pool paints Alec Burrough, an 88 year-old dairy farmer from Devon who refuses to slow down. “Despite having worked on the farm for 70 years, Alec continues to get up at dawn to care for his cows and ride his tractor,” says the release. Tinie says: “I wanted to put a spotlight on contemporary British heroes to hear their stories and help create an opportunity where the world can learn about them and their experience through art. Portraits are powerful, and a great way of achieving this, but historically they have been reserved for ‘high society’. When a portrait of mine went into the National Portrait Gallery, I remember the immense pride, inclusion and acknowledgement I felt. I hope the extraordinary people I have met making Extraordinary Portraits feel the same way.”Īiming to reframe the exclusivity of traditional portraiture, the series not only makes the art form feel more accessible, by inviting audiences to explore the process involved in such works, it also shifts the narrative behind it.
“What makes Extraordinary Portraits different is that we shift the focus to everyday heroes… who we feel deserve to be celebrated.” “Portraiture has traditionally been a way of commemorating the figures we think of as significant or powerful”, says Suzy Klein, head of BBC Arts.
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The first episode of Extraordinary Portraits is currently available on BBC iPlayer episode two will launch Sunday 6 March at 6:30 PM.Portraits can seem like the toughest subject to crack and you can easily be disheartened by your efforts. So where do you begin? A Step-by-Step approach Materials One wrong brushstroke can cause a subject to suddenly look ‘wrong’, panic sets in – your pencils get sharpened, charcoal out and you don’t come back to painting for a while.īut you don’t want to draw anymore, you want to paint. They dry slowly, and for portraits time is essential. Oil paint – for this series of demonstrations I will be using Artist quality oil paints. Oil paints are made by mixing ground pigment (the colour) with a drying oil. Most artist quality paints are mixed with cold pressed linseed oil.
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