Modern Subjects with Classical Style: Art by Greg MacNair
Featured artist Greg MacNair is a painter with a great aptitude for realism. Many of Greg’s works echo the style of renaissance masters, portraying modern subjects with classical style.
Greg has previously worked in commercial illustration, where he did a lot of work with pencil and coloured pencil. In his current personal practice, Greg tends to prefer oil paints on canvas as a medium. He skillfully blends his oils to create portraits and still-life works that have a slightly soft edge, but that seem to convey every detail of the subject, from the texture of their clothing and hair, to the way that light hits the angles of each face.
Greg's online portfolio of oil portraits
Our previous feature of Greg’s classical and contemporary portraiture focused on the artist’s drawings of people and pets. I like seeing the differences and similarities in Greg’s pencil portraits and oil portraits. He seems to attain the same slight softness with both mediums, though the pencil sketches tend to have a more casual air. Greg also creates gorgeous landscapes which can be seen on his website at gregmacnair.com.
