Techniques 

Master Portraitist Kevin Murphy has dedicated much of his life to finding the quickest method to level up painting skills. Learn the fastest way to improve your portrait painting skills. Table of Contents 1Learning Quickly With Small Steps2Start with the Structure3The Details Aren’t the Hard Part4Begin in Grayscale5Advance from Grayscale to Monochrome6Add Definition and Highlights7Is … read more

Master portraitist Kevin Murphy explains what really matters to capture the likeness of a face when painting portraits to make it look like the person you are painting. Table of Contents 1Viewing Shadow & Light as Abstracts2The Process to Capture the Likeness of a Face3Using a Big Brush to Capture the Likeness of a Face4Finding … read more

Everyone has a plan until you “paint” a face. Evolve Founder and master portraitist Kevin Murphy teaches how to build confidence as an artist in your portrait painting skills so that you can overcome fears and not be overwhelmed the next time you approach the canvas. Table of Contents 1Everyone Has a Plan…Until They Don’t2Why … read more

Evolve Founder and master portraitist shares his guide to where to start a portrait. Painting a portrait and don’t know where to begin? Most people think that painting portraits is nearly impossible and the hardest thing to paint. Master portraitist and Evolve Founder Kevin Murphy teaches us where to start a portrait. Hint: it’s not in … read more

Most people, when they start doing a portrait, they’re thinking about details right from the beginning, as if you can’t get a brush small enough to make the painting. They’re not thinking about how to simplify portrait painting.Evolve Founder Kevin Murphy working on a portrait painting of Grand Master Sardone.The truth is, if you watch … read more

Values, edges, perception, color. These are the four fundamentals of painting we need to create art without limitations.  In this Fundamentals series, we’ve broken down each fundamental separately, defining each one and discovering how they are necessary to recreate the illusion of reality on a two-dimensional surface like a canvas or a computer screen.  Now, … read more