Conánn FitzPatrick

There are images and there are perfect images, it is easy to write off an artist as blessed or lucky but there is one artist that stuns me. Steve McCurry works hard for every image he creates and I feel bad every time I look at my efforts to learn from hi

This is another painting based on a photograph by Steve McCurry, I loved the look on the guys face and the light reminds me of LA. The book of portraits is an encyclopaedia of facial form and a great source on inspiration. I had been painting clouds for a

There are images and there are perfect images, it is easy to write off an artist as blessed or lucky but there is one artist that stuns me. Steve McCurry works hard for every image he creates and I feel bad every time I look at my efforts to learn from his photographs. When I set out to paint a version of this photograph from his book of portraits I new I wanted to capture the mood and setting of the original painting, but I also wanted to do so without blurring the paint to create the depth of field found in the original photograph. I decided to experiment with mixing two painting styles for the background landscape and the foreground character. It is amazing how much can be learnt from attempting to paint such a perfect image. I had been painting clouds for awhile and was crying out for something different, it is times like these when it pays off to have a book like this. I loved how LA this image was the lizard, the tattoo, the hard man and the steel door. Over the weeks and months that followed I was able to come and go from this piece and I enjoyed every minute of it. There is just so much to learn from other peoples work.