Hello, I’m Fran, and I paint watercolor portraits of children.

I started doing portraits when I painted the portraits of seven cousins for a friend. Thanks to the enthusiastic response to these portraits on social media, I received more commissions after that. 

After working as a magazine editor in Manila and publishing several children’s books, I studied painting for four years at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, the first and oldest art school in the US. Soon after that, I received a full scholarship to study printmaking in Poland for one year at the Academy of Art and Design in the lovely city of Wroclaw. 

My traditional fine-art training has been invaluable in honing my eye and hand. The way I see it, creating a portrait is about letting the subject speak for him or herself and be represented as naturally as possible.

I enjoy bringing to life the subject's individual spark through careful draftsmanship and luminous color. I hope to reveal this inner spark in every portrait I paint, as if the portrait had a beating heart. At least that is my aspiration.

I'd love to hear from you!

Say hello at fran.ng@gmail.com
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