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Annie Mac’, oil on board 30x45cm

Was great to get to paint the incredible as part of ‘Portrait Artist of the Week’
This one was completed in one, 4-hour sitting

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2020-10-20

I love so I was excited to hear he’d been cast in EpIX. After appearing on (one of my fave TV shows) I realised what a great face he has for drawing so I really enjoyed capturing him as Allegiant General Pryde on a card... or two! 😁

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2020-08-09

Enjoyed sketching to on Facebook live today on skyartsportraitartistoftheweek#bernadineeveristo#skyportraitartistoftheweek#paotw#mypaotw#facebook#artinlockdown#portraitartistoftheyear

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2020-05-04

Send me a photo of yourself in isolation with a word describing how you feel. Hoping to make an e book recording of this time.Send to chrisieastham.com#chrisieastham#portraitartistoftheyear2020#portraitartist#iPad#procreate#markthistime

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2020-04-02

Decided to doodle along with Here’s my Micky Flanagan.

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2020-01-22

Starting to block in the initial tones for the portrait of Sir Ranulph Fiennes, this is a huge painting so a big challenge!

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2019-09-21

This is my semifinal painting of .Really proud of what I achieved in a tough 4 hours. Good luck Tom, Duncan and Sara in the final. Excited about the semifinalists UK Tour at starting 18th April in London.

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2019-04-13

Looking back over some quick paintings. Here’s one I did in preparation for a commission last year. Don’t miss the semifinals of 8pm tonight.

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2019-04-09

here's my latest effort. Sorry to the judges if there's no narrative and the brush strokes aren't eastern European

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2019-04-03

I'm giving myself a challenge of each week painting one of the sitters from portrait artist of the year which I watch it, for some practice. This one was Stephen Graham, 35 minutes.

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2019-03-07