Anthony O'Keefe Portrait and Equine Artist

There have been loads of books written about composition that all aspects of visual arts from painting to interior design and films but I find it best to stick to some simple guidelines to help me produce the painting I want and is pleasing to the eye. I say guidelines as they are just that, not rules, and can be …

We all receive critiques, it’s part of exhibiting our work, it’s important that we treat them as fuel to enhance our work and develop as an artist. To be able to judge the value of the critique we need to understand what type it is and then to treat accordingly. I classify critiques into three groups; objective, subjective and self-criticism. …

Greys are one of the most important “colours” in painting which when used correctly add realistic variation in tone and warmth. My favourite grey was shown to me at Art Umbrian in Italy by a wonderful artist Freda Anderson I find it to be the most versatile of greys and I use it in every painting I produce, some of them …