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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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Sketchbook page Toxic Masculinity. A portrait of Chanel Contos. Oil on linen. 122cm x 122cm. Thank you so much, @chanelc for this opportunity and experience. It’s been a privilege to work with you again and honour your fantastic achievements. Defining moments are often seen as unexpected events or chance encounters. But the defining moments I value most are the result of a process that involves hard work, perseverance, and dedication. Those are the ones that truly garner my respect. And Chanel will have many defining moments as a consequence of all the hard work she and her colleagues dedicate to consent education. The last stages of painting the portrait of Chanel Contos. Painting pearls on the portrait of Chanel Contos. There are lots of things we look at or see and objectify without consciously devoting any brain muscle to considering what we’re looking at. The wonderful experience of painting makes the artist break down what they see into form, hue, tone, saturation and temperature. Those relationships are the building blocks of visual stimuli; understanding those things helps you make more accurate and quicker decisions whilst you paint. One benefit is to better understand how a vision can be broken down into its parts. Another positive is that it makes you question why. Why does the pearl reflect light like that? Where is that reflected highlight coming from? I don’t want to overstate it too much. It’s not like I look at a face and analyse the translucency of the person’s nostril in the sunlight; however, if I were painting the person’s face, I may well spend a while reflecting on those kinds of things.