Step 1, painting Amy Winehouse

Step by Step

As with all my airbrush paintings I start off with a detailed line drawing. I rub a graphite pencil on the back of my reference image and then draw over the top, leaving a line drawing on my painting surface. You can see clearly in this photo my line drawing and were I have started to paint in the back ground. I like to paint in as much of the white areas as quick as possible to help with simultaneous contrast