Painting Barry Humphries - Portrait Artist of the Year

Callum smoked this competition straight up. Respect to the other two artists though

Beautiful talented artists. All the portraits are beautiful.

Callums commision is a Modern old Master. What a painting

I am so sorry, but I find the winners style so sterile and almost lifeless. What do the judges see in him? He is very good at photorealism, but there is no joy in his work at all. I am so sad that Kostas did not win as his work had so much more to offer than just a photographic likeness.

God onecof the judgesjust made me want to scream Shut up!!!

Sometimes the judges get carried away with their own insights Yawn

All the three were amazing, but Christos won for me. Does anybody know his Instagram ?

Callum is amazing … but Christos was my winner. His paintings were so amazing . His son’s painting was breathtaking .

RIP, Barry Humphries AC CBE...and thank you for the entertainment... for everything.

I've never understood why they make the celebrity sit for 4 hours when most of the artists take a snapshot and work from that and never looking up at the live model.

Great winner! ❤️‍🔥👌🏾👏

I also love the fact how all the finalists reacts! They granted it to eachother; that's really good to see too! (and the paintings as well)
From Holland with ❤

I hope you can get us MasterChef Uk Professionals.

The portrait by Christos of his son is so powerful and beautiful

I saw him perform and he is the consummate performer

I was happy that the winner was someone very different from previous winners in terms of style. He has absolute command of precision but doesn't lose the heart of the person he paints. Exciting!

Stunning, you can hear it with all the movement and light. ❤

In all of portrait artists finalists this is the one of highest caliber. Any one of them could have won.

Damn this was such an amazing final episode to watch man. I mean all three of the artist have done such a phenomenal job 🙌🔥✨!

Best Finals So Far

Eager to watch the final challenge. I hope it doesn't take too long to upload the final chapter.

I am SO PLEASED it was Callum! I LOVE his work, and I'm glad a Scottish artist will be doing the piece for the Scottish NPG ❤

Love Callum's work. It has the realism of a photograph and the heart and soul of an artist's portraiture.

I liked Callum's the least. His drawing of his girlfriend was bad and the painting of her looks like she died and and then rise from the dead. Weird they didn't see it. I will never understand this judges.

I personally liked Christos works the most, his colours and sense of delivering a special atmosphere was on point. Callum’s piece of his girlfriend was brilliant, but to me there was a bit of a lack of variety in his portraits (still they were brilliantly executed but..)

I did like the boy on the bike

Congratulations 🎉

I think they’ve chosen the best artist for the final commission…in my opinion his style of painting will compliment Ms. Benedetti very well…

The winner certainly produced the best likeness of Barry. Love all three artists, well done! 👍👍

Callum is a mazing

This is the best final ever. The best sitter with the great Barry Humphries. The winning portraits were stunning, made me rather emotional.

I'm so thrilled they were able to paint Barry before he passed. Wonderful choice of subject !!!
Really thought Barry would pick Cristos' work. Love Callum's too.
I think they were all wonderful 👏 ❤

This was an exciting climax and the best finale. We as artists learn so much from the struggles along the way. Tai says portraiture is alive and well which is great and this program has done an ever increasingly excellent job in revitalizing this medium which is always risky and challenging…🇨🇦👏🏻👏🏻

Callum was good but actually the least exciting artist of the three.

Kristos definitely expected to win.
Callum and kristos are both first class painters!

Beautiful session, they should compete again

The judges finally chose the best PORTRAIT artist. What a gifted painter.
Looking forward to see Callum's final commission painting. I bet he'll knock it out of the park!

Three fabulous artists. But the young winner is fantastic and inspiring.

They got it right for a change!
His work reminds of the paintings of Alex Colville and Andrew Wyeth. His final painting was outstanding.

All three were amazing right through to the final! Hard choice but the judges definitely picked the right winner~!

Barrie sadly died last year.
The finalist are very good, the best semifinal until now. Difficult decision for the judges, I love all three of them.

There is a significant difference in force between the three people's drawings (pencil, mechanical pencil, and charcoal).

Really like it the finalists are only men

All very talented painters. I agree with Cullim as winner.

I love the style of Callum, he deserved to win. But I also love the portrait of Christos son with the bicycle - really amazing. All three are great artists. A wonderful final.

I would have put the glasses peeking out of the pocket and just a few small feathers on the shoulder. Or maybe a boa tie. ❤

Callum needs to learn how much the interaction between the figure and the background can add to the complexity of the emotional engagement of and with the sitter.

The winning portrait seen here is actually Mark Oliver's son portrait. It is so beautiful, realistically brilliant, alive!, the muscles detail and armpit hair has Caravaggio caliber all over it, and I'm not exaggerating.
Immediately, I thought La BENEDETTI would look glorious with Mark Oliver.
But his Barry portrait was absolutely AWFUL. It looks like W.C.Fields half brother from another mother.

Same with Christos. His son portrait is astonishing!!! Unbelievable!!!
Why on earth would he choose that small pumpkin head for Barry? He got his wicked humor look 👀 in the eyes, but it was not to the level of the Son on bicycle portrait.

KALLUM is the deserved 👏 winner. The portrait of his girlfriend is a masterpiece and a little bit scary, which is always good to see in portraits.
His facial craftsmanship portraits are a true genius level.
Can't wait for the La BENEDETTI PORTRAIT!!!
CONGRATULATIONS KALLUM!!!
Take your beautiful girlfriend out to dinner for a week with the prize money. She earned it!!!

Simply LOVE Artist of the Year episodes. I simply love it so much.❤

So happy for him!