Dane Ikin

Specialising in portraits from photographs, I have had work published since 1970. I ran a community art class for several years until COVID and that led me to expand the kinds of artwork that I did. My usual medium was ink drawings, but my art class liked to do watercolours so I expanded my repertoire into colour with a little painting here and there. I found that hard pastel suited my technique best since it was a dry medium that allowed me to gauge the intensity of the colour as it is applied, and it allowed me to create smooth gradients which were good for drawing faces.

Diploma of Commercial Arts (Graphic Design) 2012