Lucie Delacy Portraits | Artist

Lucie Delacy Portraits

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25.01.2022 www.luciedelacyportraits.com The early musings of something of an equine nature.. i think i'd love to do a whole series of horses. I love them.

25.01.2022 These were my very first paid portrait commissions (16 yrs i think i was) ... commissioned by dear family friends and now these little ones are all grown up and extra beautiful persian/kiwi beauties. These are close up pics taken from the framed originals, hence the glass reflect.

22.01.2022 Oooh... After 3 years of taking my previous website down.. Excited to announce that my new site has just gone LIVE.. !! It's nice to be back doing artistically creative stuff again - this year is all about BALANCE for me (ha). A MASSIVE thank you to Demetre @ MAOR Branding and Design for building me exactly what i wanted.. a clean, simple elegant online portfolio (also for all the people that are not on FB).. that has been expertly SEO'd.. (did you know that if your site doe...sn't load and is viewable within 3 seconds you can lose 30-40% of customers?) I learnt SO much during this process and am thankful that Demetre had the mad skills to be able to photograph archival work for me and digitally clean it up as well as co-designing the site design, a new logo and doing all the back end coding. What a talent. You can find me HERE at: www.luciedelacyportraits.com P.S.. FB will continue to be my Work in progress and interactive platform.. there are lot's of sketch and painting styles i am looking forward to experimenting with.

19.01.2022 Here's a work in progress for you i found from last year.. these colours look SO beautiful for children - the pics really dont do the finished version justice, somehow the photo's of them lose something, the feeling or essence maybe.... so when you see one 'in the flesh' it's a whole different ballgame. P.s.. i know what all my subjects look like bald.. hair is often the last part that i draw.. LOL :)

15.01.2022 www.luciedelacyportraits.com Work in progress.. one from the archives..

08.01.2022 SO basically, i wouldn't really call myself an 'artist' .. i'm more of a glorified 'copyist' - i'm not being modest and fishing for compliments, i really mean this as a fact. If i had been trained to do this i would be very proud of my accomplishments.. However, this is purely a genetic gift (like getting eye colour from your parents). This is why i can't teach anyone else - because i simply don't know what or how i do it ! Structure wise, i don't follow any formal training f...ramework and i have no idea how to draw the body or the face if i can't see it ! I started drawing faces when i was 16 (from photographs) and these just seemed to work out. I was just as amazed as anyone. We had a wonderful artist family friend called Barry Miller, whose work and portrait style i really loved and i used to watch him sketch and i still use the 2 same beautiful rust and sepia pencils as him - so i guess he really shaped my way of colouring, i just don't get into the gin at 11am each day LOL ! So i get the actual raw gift from my father John Crawley - who was an amazing portrait artist - and who i only met in person about 4 years ago. i might post some of his work here at some point so you can see. So, i can basically copy anything i can physically 'see' but look forward to exploring other areas of this gift over time (when i grow up) :) Here are the first 3 portraits i ever did (in the rust colour that Barry used - and the same model / girl from one of his photograph studies - as Barry always photographed his clients prior to drawing them). I would have been maybe about 17 when i did these, i still love them the very best as i enlarged them from a very small old school photograph purely 'by eye'.. here it is (i also chose them because she is wearing a headscarf and i hadn't attempted to draw hair back then LOL) :