Portraiture - Resources for Artists

After the spate of blog posts about portrait competitions at the end of April, I started a new information site for portraiture called Portraiture - Resources for Artists. I can't quite work out why it's taken me so long!

Drawing a Head - class
pencil and coloured pencils on Saunders Waterford
copyright Katherine Tyrrell

It's still being developed and new links will be added for the foreseeable future - but now seems a good time to publish its existence.

Click a link to go straight to any of the following topics covered on the site.

• What is a portrait?
• National Portrait Galleries
• Portrait Societies
• Portrait Exhibitions
• Portraiture
• Portraiture on wikipedia
• Eminent Portrait Artists in the History of Art
• BOOKS: John Singer Sargent - portrait artist
• Portrait Competitions in the UK - BP Portrait Prize
• Portrait Competitions in the UK - Ondaatje Portrait Prize and other RSPP prizes
• Portrait Competitions in the USA
• Notable contemporary portrait artists
• Modern Portraits and Portraiture
• Portrait Collections
• Portraits Online
• BOOKS: Self Portraiture
• Self-Portraiture
• BOOKS: How to draw and paint a portrait
• Portrait Commissions
• Blogging about Portraits and Portraiture

I'm finding that good quality links are less frequent than I was expecting and suggestions for good links to include are most welcome.

I'm particularly keen to create a section about Notable contemporary portrait artists. As there are so many good portrait artists around I have to limit 'Notable' to meaning portrait artists who have won a prize or otherwise had some sort of formal recognition by a national portrait society. Suggestions with hyperlinks please.

The above drawing is one I did recently in my Drawing a Head class last month. She's looking less finished than usual but I'm on a campaign of avoding overworking at the moment!

I'm now off for a day out in Piccadilly visiting exhibitions and book shops with Robyn (Have Dogs, Will Travel) - with hopefully quite a bit of sketching involved - followed by the Awards Ceremony for the BP Portrait Prize this evening!