Painting Antonio
I recently painted a talented songwriter friend of mine named Antonio Grifoni. Until then, I had been somewhat doubtful about how I was going to do this as he rarely sits without playing his guitar.
My approach was one that I adopt when painting a landscape – keeping it loose and more impressionist than some of my other portraits. I enjoyed using more colour than I might normally, though keeping them fairly muted.
We listened to his music the whole way through. My Instagram has quite an amusing video of one of the sittings.
Daisy Sims-Hilditch exhibits "A Lobster and some Mussels" at the Royal Society of Women artists annual exhibition at The Mall Galleries this summer
"Early light on the Embankment" by Daisy Sims-Hilditch was awarded "The Golden Buzzer Prize" by Sara Stewart at the Fine Art Commissions “Fresh Paint” exhibition earlier in the summer, held at Rossetti Studios.
