Ivan Davis New York settled and Texas conceived piano player is a standout amongst the most respected craftsmen of his age. He started his investigations at 12 years old with his auntie, proceeded as a grant understudy of Silvio Scionti at North Texas State University. In 1955 he won initially prize at the National Federation of Music Clubs Young Artist Competition. https://www.pinterest.com/IvanDavisNewYork/

1. Portrait Painting Tips – Ivan Davis
New York

2. Ivan Davis New York is an artist
vastly influenced by the Spanish
arts. His love and specialty is the
portraits, a genre in painting
where the artist illustrate a person
or an animal subject. Most
portraitists presently create the
portraits by commission, and it
can be ordered for public
consumption or private
individuals, also can be done just
by inspiration or affection for the
subject

3. Ivan Davis New York
Historically, portraits are often
remembrances for a family
record, and have primarily
memorialized the rich and
powerful, especially in the times
of kings and queens.

4. Today, the portrait paintings are
still generally made for the rich
and powerful, as governments,
corporations, groups and clubs,
but are more and more being
ordered by middle class
individuals as a form of record
and entering other areas of art,
like tattoos.

5. Ivan Davis New York
Before, a well-executed portrait
was supposed to demonstrate the
inner essence of the subject in
question, from the artist's point of
view. A flattering representation
was expected, so artists looked
for almost photographic realism.
Nowadays, portraits can relate to
caricatures, where the character
of a person or animal represented
is shown through the
exaggeration of physical features.

6. Ivan Davis New York, with all his
years of experience in portrait
paintings, brings us many tips of
how to make the perfect portrait.

7. How to prepare the canvas?
Ivan Davis New York uses the
type of canvas with the highest
quality, which he stretch himself.
Painting on a cheap canvas can
stress you out before even
starting it. You don’t need to start
with the most expensive canvas,
go after one that can handle what
you need and that you can afford.

8. The difference between linen and cotton is the
weave of the cotton that can be too automatic,
when the linen have more random weaves.

9. The difference between linen and cotton is the
weave of the cotton that can be too automatic,
when the linen have more random weaves.

10. Linen is the most expensive one,
but many artists say that linen is
more willing painting surface than
cotton. Both of them are primed
with acrylics (giving a bit more
friction or more brush control) or oil
(giving a more slippery surface).
This depends on your personal
preference.

11. Ivan Davis New York usually uses
the heavy duty neutral primed
linen, already coated. What he
does is adding another three
layers of gesso and black and
ochre acrylics and that way he
obtains a neutral gray primer.

12. THANK YOU
Ivan Davis New Yorks puts the canvas ready for use under the stretch bar,
and with a staple he starts with just one staple on the middle of each side
to make the base of it. After you just need to continue with the staple
until the end of the stretch bar, from the middle to the corners. Be
careful to keep the canvas stretched during the entire process.