"SONNY MACK"

Let's take a look at what we're painting this week:

We're in Memphis. Beale Street, the world famous home of Jazz and we're painting Sonny Mac mid performance. This painting only uses three colours to create lovely darks and a shallow depth of field for our background. Then we split the painting of Sonny himself up into nice easy sections before coming in with the final detail at the end.

This is a really challenging tutorial but the result is an incredible painting you'll be really proud of.

STEP 1: Download your PDF

STEP 2: Transfer your drawing

If you can freehand the reference image onto your paper, that's fantastic. If you need a hand transferring your drawing we've got a 'GREAT TUTORIAL BY GRAHAM' to show you exactly how to transfer your drawing onto your canvas.

STEP 3: Press play...

Remember you can pause, rewind and rewatch as much as needed, plus each video has chapters so you can click the chapters button (see right picture) to select where you want to continue from.

Chapters markers

STEP 4: SEND US YOUR WORK

Once you've completed the tutorial we'd love to hear how you got on.

As part of your welcome email, we sent you instructions on how to join our members only Facebook group. If you haven't already joined you can request to join the group by clicking the button below:

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We can't get everyone's paintings on our gallery (although we do our best), so we select a sample of paintings to feature every two weeks.

If you haven't got a Facebook account you can submit your paintings by email, by clicking the button above.

If you've ever wondered what people think of grahams paintings watch this fantastic YouTube review by respected art reviewer, Liron Yanconsky, watch his video here:

 

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