Fine Art tips on How to Paint Portraits with Master Artist Barry McCann on Colour In Your Life

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In this fine art TV show episode Barry McCann is interviewed with Colour In Your Life about painting, drawing, art workshops, art tips and art techniques. Help support CIYL's growth around the globe and become a patron of the arts today at: https://www.patreon.com/colourinyourlife https://www.youtube.com/c/ColourinyourlifeAu New fine art TV show episodes loaded every Wednesday AEST. https://www.facebook.com/PutSomeColourInYourLife/ https://www.colourinyourlife.com.au/ Fine Art TV Series - Colour In Your Life Season - 07 Episode - 02 Filmed on Location at - Armidale, NSW, Australia Barry McCann was born in 1962 in Armidale NSW Australia, where he now lives with his wife Lucy, also a full time artist. Together they run McCann Fine Art, producing, selling and teaching art.He is the recipient of numerous awards and prizes and his works hang in collections around the world. Barry McCann’s interest in art began with his love of drawing as a young student presenting school assignments with more illustrations than text and developed further as a young adult during his college years. Drawing became a way of gaining some pocket money and new friends. His artistic interest and flair became very advantageous with his chosen trade as a Chef and Cake Decorator, but it wasn’t until he enrolled in an introductory Watercolour course at the Canberra School of Arts, A.C.T. that his appetite for art really began. Armed with an insatiable thirst for art knowledge, he stumbled upon a book about the life and works of artist John Singer Sargent and this has influenced his work and artistic vision ever since. He has studied with many leading artists in their field in order to build on his skills and in 2000 he began painting as a fulltime career. Barry’s love of art has taken him to some of the best museums and art galleries in the world where he draws constant inspiration. His subject matter usually involves an animated object with a dramatic light effect and enjoys the constant challenge of trying to portray the illusion of both movement and form with a narrative theme. The pursuit of conveying beauty in his work is paramount. He believes that art is a visual language and should need little explanation… you should just like looking at it. Finding the middle ground where traditional representational art can be fused with a more modern look is something he strives for. His work usually portrays a traditional scene and is painted using loose edges, obvious brushstrokes, dribbles, spatter or “movement lines” all of which are used in contemporary art practices. Barry McCann would like his viewers to not have an opinion of his work, but a connection or a response.. You can contact the artist about their art tips or art techniques directly via their website http://www.mccannfineart.net.au/ The Colour In Your Life TV series is an art show that takes you into the everyday studios of artists from around the world. While in the studio they share their individual techniques with the viewer in a relaxed atmosphere with a delightfully Australian host and fellow artist Graeme Stevenson. The series is currently filmed in Australia, New Zealand and the United States. Colour In Your Life is an Australian produced TV art show and website http://www.colourinyourlife.com.au Graeme Stevenson, a world renowned Artist himself, rides his Harley Davidson to the studios of Artists all over the world and allows the viewers a chance to go into the Art studios of some of the greatest Artists in the world. A wonderfully engaging show that allows people to see inside the minds and the abilities of some of the most creative people in the world. If you love creativity and the shear joy of looking at the world through Art, then Colour In Your Life is the place too be. Subscribe here - http://bit.ly/ColourInYourLife