Tessa Bamkin Art and Photography

Tessa Bamkin Art and Photography Tessa is an artist who specialises in portraiture of all kinds including equine portraiture and photography. I try to keep my pricing affordable for everyone.

I am an who specialises in portraiture of all kinds including equine portraiture and photography. I work in a number of media from photographs and posts worldwide. For more information, quotes and consultation message the page and I will get straight back to you. Average price ranges from £35 - £250 GBP depending on colour or black/white, size, and quality of the original photograph. If you have a

photo of your horse and you're not sure if it's suitable to draw from, I'm more than happy to let you know.

"Enchanted"Self portrait in acrylic. Reference taken in Ekeberg Sculpture park by my husband. I'm standing in the middle...
16/01/2026

"Enchanted"

Self portrait in acrylic. Reference taken in Ekeberg Sculpture park by my husband. I'm standing in the middle of the Norwegian pixel forest by Pipilotti Rist

Did some sketches, as always painted over stuff and started again. I used a free app, infinite painter, to compare my painting and the reference repeatedly and to test glazing and blurring.

The last few steps were extra after my husband said the depth of field wasn't right so first we glazed glazed glazed using sculpture gel (yes you can use it carefully to glaze instead) and then we went in with different size brushes to have different blue levels to create clarity.

Nearly there on this piece was up till 1am working away last night in the zone.I'll finish the hair, hat and background ...
10/01/2026

Nearly there on this piece was up till 1am working away last night in the zone.

I'll finish the hair, hat and background and then just slight adjustments on contrast.

Working on the next piece. Letting the face sit for a bit, it will just be minute millimetre precision changes from here...
01/01/2026

Working on the next piece. Letting the face sit for a bit, it will just be minute millimetre precision changes from here. I'll probably play with it in Photoshop to see what works and what doesn't.

It's a self portrait, with photo taken by my husband in Ekeburgparken in Oslo. It was daylight when it was taken but he took the exposure down to get that high contrast of the lights.

Probably a couple of days off, we'll see if it gets done before I get back to work.

Finished the gift for my brother just before the deadline. Pretty happy with it and fits in the room.Acrylic on board 40...
25/12/2025

Finished the gift for my brother just before the deadline. Pretty happy with it and fits in the room.

Acrylic on board 40+ hours

Another four hours, blue green area done. Wing and right hand side to go.
01/12/2025

Another four hours, blue green area done. Wing and right hand side to go.

Getting a handle on these feathers it sure takes ages. Give me a face and hair to paint any day.
17/11/2025

Getting a handle on these feathers it sure takes ages. Give me a face and hair to paint any day.

Got the big brush out for first time in ten years. Redid the beak and eye completely and looking less like a Kookaburra....
08/11/2025

Got the big brush out for first time in ten years. Redid the beak and eye completely and looking less like a Kookaburra.

Consensus on the background was blue/green and abstract parts so that's what we're going for.

What colour should the background be?For this bird there's gonna be a lot of pointy feathers and brush strokes so I'm go...
05/11/2025

What colour should the background be?

For this bird there's gonna be a lot of pointy feathers and brush strokes so I'm going to need to decide background colour a lot earlier than usual.

I like the turquoise but I'm tending towards the yellow I think.

New winter projectMy favourite type of bird,What's yours?
04/11/2025

New winter project

My favourite type of bird,

What's yours?

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