Tag Archives: portrait

Billy Giles: A Study Of Despair – Sold

April 19, 2021 by eastcorkpainter in art and tagged acrylic, angst, anguish, billy giles, chiaroscuro, despair, desperate, gaze, gouache, guilt, haunted, killer, loyalist, loyalists, murderer, niall mccarthy, northern ireland, peter taylor, portrait, profound, realistic, regret, remorse, remorseful, ridden, the north, the troubles, tramatised, troubled, uvf, woe | Leave a comment

Oti Mabuse

March 21, 2021 by eastcorkpainter in art and tagged artist, contemplating, contemplative, dancer, detailed, gouache, niall mccarthy, oti mabuse, portrait, realism, realistic, reflective, sharp, strictly, week | Leave a comment

Cat Eat Bird

November 22, 2020 by eastcorkpainter in art and tagged bird, blood, carcass, cat, detailed, eat, eating, fowl, gore, gouache, green and red, guts, niall mccarthy, painting, pet, portrait, realistic | Leave a comment

A Portrait Of Mick O’Dwyer

May 8, 2016 by eastcorkpainter in acrylics, art and tagged acrylics, acryllic, ageing, aging, craggy, detailed, experienced, face, football, gaa, gaelic, great, kerry, legend, manager, masculine, mick o'dwyer, niall mccarthy, old age, painting, portrait, realism, realistic, weather beaten | Leave a comment

A Portrait Of Jim McGuinness

April 17, 2016 by eastcorkpainter in acrylics, art, portrait, Uncategorized and tagged acrylic, acrylics, art, bainisteoir, donegal, face, gaa, gaelic football, jim mcguinness, lean, manager, masculine, niall mccarthy, painting, portrait, realism, realistic, thin | Leave a comment

Self-Portrait In Blue, March 2016

March 20, 2016 by eastcorkpainter in acrylics, art, paintings, portraits, self-portrait, Uncategorized and tagged 2016, acrylic, acrylics, afro, anger, angry, blue, curly, direct, fist, gaze, hair, hairy, intense, look, madness, monochrome, mop, piercing, portrait, self-portrait, stare, staring, striking | Leave a comment

Self-Portrait Spring 2015

April 4, 2015 by eastcorkpainter in acrylics, art, painting, portraits, self-portrait and tagged acrylic, acrylics, art, blue, face, hairy, human, male, man, masculine, niall mccarthy, painting, personal, portrait, realism, realistic, self-portrait, shaggy, stare, staring, young | Leave a comment

Emer In Yellow

July 16, 2013 by eastcorkpainter in Uncategorized and tagged acrylics, art, painting, portrait, sister, yellow | Leave a comment

Painted outdoors, using yellow both as a background and a base skin colouring mix

Emer In Blue

July 7, 2013 by eastcorkpainter in Uncategorized and tagged acrylics, art, blue, niall mccarthy, painting, portrait | 1 Comment

Painted in four hours, trying out blue as a base colour mix.

A Self-Portrait In Red

July 6, 2013 by eastcorkpainter in Uncategorized and tagged acrylics, niall mccarthy, painting, portrait, red, self-portrait | Leave a comment

Painted in nearly 5 hours. I wanted a change of scene compared to recent portraits and I enjoyed doing this.