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.
Tuesday, December 25, 2012
Thursday, December 20, 2012
Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Landscape speedpaint study
Landscape speedpaint study |
A 2 hour speedpaint study. From the deviant art speedpaint group. Thanks Wolk for running this. Stock curtesy of SandsibStock.
Monday, December 17, 2012
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Forest speedpaint Study
Forest Speedpaint Study |
from here. 2 hours to do. Lost it on the details in the foreground but liked the atmosphere.
Monday, December 10, 2012
Saturday, December 8, 2012
Morning light - Speedpaint
Morning light Speed paint |
This was a study from the speed paint group on deviant art. The Stock from Burtn [link].
I am trying to do these with the minimum texture brushes.
Thursday, December 6, 2012
The First Golden Age of Illustration
I have seen numerous articles referring to the early twentieth century as the Golden Age of Illustration but for me the first true age of illustration lies in the 13th, 14th and 15th century. Then there seemed to be that necessary combination of skill knowledge and resource to produce great books and the required personal wealth and vanity to support their production.
The Luttrell Salter which is in the British museum is an example I have mentioned before.
Recently another excellent example of this kind of illustration came up for auction in Sothebys.
It was Louis De Gruuthuse's Copy of the deeds of Sir Gillion De Trazegnies in the Middle East (1464). The 237 page boasts numerous illustrations but for me the borders of these pages are where the magic is. Of the pages reproduced were intricately worked foliage. Among the foliage are depictions of small cannon, peacocks, men with swords and a monkey pretending to be a doctor examining urine in a jar. It is reasonable to speculate some of these at least were for satire and amusement.
The estimate for the auction was 3-5 million dollars. It would have been a pity for such a book to disappear into a private collection. Happily the book has been bought by the Getty Museum. It went for 6.2 million dollars.
The J. Paul Getty Museum has a great resource here looking at renaissance manuscripts.
Tuesday, December 4, 2012
Sunday, December 2, 2012
Thursday, November 29, 2012
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
Merlin Part 2
Merlin Character Final |
Saturday, November 24, 2012
Digging For Gold
Digging For Gold |
Wednesday, November 21, 2012
Merlin Character part 1
Merlin Sketches |
I did a series of rough sketches for the Merlin character. This was to go with the Arthur character already done for the Crimson Daggers mentoring. I wanted to go for a wanderer. Probably not of the culture but had absorbed some of its aspects. I dumped the idea of the staff and wanted to work with the wilder appearing guy.
Sunday, November 18, 2012
Friday, November 16, 2012
Christmas Tree speedpaint
Christmas Tree speedpaint |
Following the previous speedpaint study.This was a stock photos from midnightstouchSTOCK
and the group is run on there. I think it was about 90 minutes.
It is beginning to look a lot like Christmas!
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Monday, November 12, 2012
Sunday, November 11, 2012
Character King Arthur
King Arthur Character |
King Arthur - Japanese |
The Crimson Daggers are currently running some mentoring sessions. I did not apply for any as I was concerned that I would not be able to give sufficient time to the lessons. There is no problem taking some of the homework from the sessions. I am having a go at Character development . It is something I have done very little of. The series will be characters from the King Arthur myth but the twist is that the characters must be from a different area/culture. I chose Japanese Heian period. Not too excited how this one turned out. Will try a different approach for the second one - Merlin.
Thursday, November 8, 2012
Wednesday, November 7, 2012
Sunday, November 4, 2012
Friday, November 2, 2012
International Self Portrait Day
Self Portrait |
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Monday, October 29, 2012
Saturday, October 27, 2012
Basilisk lizard study
basilisk lizard study |
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
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