A diary of my adventures in art from painting to 3D animation. I have added work over 10 years so it has become a record of my changing abilities and interests. Contact me if you have any questions.
Monday, October 3, 2011
Saturday, October 1, 2011
Gmini 402 alla prima
Gmini 402 in oils |
It has been overtaken by newer models but this one does what I want it to do really well which is play mp3s. It is robust easy to use and I principally use it when I am cycling.
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
alla prima orange
Orange (Oil on oil painting paper 30 x 20 cm) |
This took about 1 1/2 hours. after completing this I decided to cut the size of these down to half to get them to a more finished state in a shorter time. More to come...
Sunday, September 18, 2011
Fishermen Photoshop Study
This is another study of an image from the same collection as this.
In contrast with the last study I did not use a value study using overlays to add colour. This one I painted directly which for me is much easier to control but the trade off is flexibility.
Final |
Reference |
Blocking |
Colour |
Sunday, September 4, 2011
Water Carrier - Photoshop
This work is based on an image which is part of a collection donated by the Matson Photo Service to the USA Library of Congress
The collection spans 1898 to 1946 and is mostly black and white images taken in the Middle East.
This is a colourised digital painting in Photoshop based on an image of a water carrier.
Thursday, September 1, 2011
Monday, August 15, 2011
Mayo Summer Landscape
This is an oil painting I worked on for the past few weeks. It is based on a photograph I took. All too many of those kinds of days this summer. The sky was dark and ominous but the sun still shone out of shot. The farmer had cut the grass the previous day cutting around the poles.
I did all this work in one sitting. Got a lot done in a short time. Left the poles until the paint was dry.
Started to work on the detail of poles.
Still fiddling about with details. Added in wires.
Finished out highlights.
Thursday, July 21, 2011
Portrait Practice
Have been putting off doing some serious drawing practice. To make up for it I thought I would have a go at doing some portraits. These are all from photo or picture reference in Photoshop.
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Écorché of a horse Écorché de cheval This is a copy of a muscle study of a horse. The study I found here . I am going to tak...
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House Render Back to 2D and Photoshop. I wanted to try and get as close as I could to watercolour render. This was based off a goo...