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Painting Chanel

Earlier this year I announced I’d be painting Teach Us Consent founder and CEO, Chanel Contos. This work was completed and, in this post, I’m sharing the development of the piece. Upon accepting my request…

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R.I.P Nicholas Harding (1956-2022) I first met Nicholas shortly before he won the Archibald Prize in 2001. We met at Barb's place one night with a group of friends. Barb was a mutual friend and lived in an apartment one floor down from me in Drummoyne, Sydney. Nicholas was very approachable. I recall he was super chilled and preferred to sit on the floor. He was also proud to be covered in paint and wear workman's boots. He was a hard worker and didn't mind looking like one. I think he was still doing some work as an animator back then. When he painted John Bell for the Archibald Prize, I painted Alan Jones, the radio broadcaster. He visited me at my studio, and I saw his, located on Broadway at the time. He made a good point, noting a portrait shouldn't pander to the subject's vanity, to which we agreed. He referred to portraiture that does that as vanity art. I saw him a week after winning the Archibald in 2001, and he was a happy man. Film still from Rise Up. Annaliese McGuire @annaliesemcguire and HMA by Christina @diamonddiversity This is another concept for Chanel’s portrait. If anyone has seen the previous posts on similar sketches, you may be wondering, where is the final compositional sketch? Well, the simple answer is that there isn’t one. So, when we got to the photoshoot location and Chanel began posing, the composition changed then and there, and we came up with something we thought was better. Portrait of Chanel Contos. Founder and CEO of Teach.Us.Consent. Close-up progress shot. Oil on wood. You can see more of the process work I did for Chanel’s portrait in a recent journal post I published on my website. Go to the link in my bio; you’ll find a direct link to the article.