Came across a'photobucket' web page of the wife and our dog? So i thought I could put an image of him up here. It was drawn using Karismacolor pencil. Drawn from a photo I used it on the back of the Christmas card. Yogi came to us from a rescue centre and had been poorly looked after before that. His ears have been mutilated. The Australian Kelpie has large pointed ears that stand proud, Yogi's look like a bears now, hence the name Yogi (bear).

Lift Off.

Here is the picture that I got accepted into the Guild of Aviation Artists 2009 show. http://www.gava.org.uk

Depicting the launch of the Saturn 5, Apollo 11 mission. Because of the 40 year anniversary I wanted to try and capture the event in a slightly different way. Here we are part of the crowd watching the event. I hoped to try and draw us into the picture wanting to be able to be part of the moment, the history. I suppose that with such a momentus event it was always going to be hard.

guild picture

Photoshop girl portrait.

This is another test using a photo my mate Taf took. (www.taffmanton.com) I thought the lighting was great on it and hope to be able to capture that with the brush tool in Photoshop. By zooming in and out the detail can be increased. However this can upset the overall composition.

Please feel free to add comments of thoughts you may have. Thanks John.

Dr Who

This was a test using Photoshop. I took quite a long time doing it as I wanted to see how close to my reference I could get. Always good to have a nice image to start with.

My Profile

This is an A4 profile I did for last years Christmas card. I did one of each of the family. Just using black and white pencil on a coloured textured paper.
A friend said they liked it and I don't think ts on my website so here is a chance to see it.

Bandaner

Me in the Southend half marathon Sunday 14 June 2009. Just under 1hr 57 mins.

I am the one in sunglasses and USA bandaner.

Have a look at the painting I did of me in the London marathon on my website, in the portrait gallery.

More paintings soon.

I coloured up two photos in Photoshop (adding textures and colours then playing around with layer propeties).

No CGI..

This is a Super Sculpey model that was produced from a character design worked on at Style Machine. I am in the process of painting him and will put some pictures of that on when finished. More of my sculpts can be seen on my website.

Style Machine

Good news. The studio where I have space in London, Style Machine, has a website now up and running. Have a look..

http://www.style-machine.com/

Here you can see some of my commercial work (mainly cars), storyboards and visuals. Todays image is more in keeping with this.

Above is a visual of an Opel Insignia as a design proposal.

I used Copic inks before scanning the image in and finishing in Photoshop.

CGI girl

This is another cgi test done this time in Corel painter X. Good ref and a lot of pushing colour and textures around.

Some of these images our on my websight http://www.thomosix.co.uk/ but as I come across things I have photographes or scanned I am trying to get them on here.

My thanks to Tatiana who has linked to this blog.

Autumn Smithfield Market

20" x 16" Oil on canvas. My morning walk to the studio takes me through the market. Autumn light is my favorite. So I took some pics, on the mobile.

St Pauls

This is a small painting 10" x 12" done on mdf. I walk past this view during the cold months and took the picture with a mobil phone camera. I want to do more London subjects and get the confidence to paint plein air.

Sara in poppys.

Sara in poppys is a 20" x 28"oil painting. The work was done from a photograph I took back in 1987 in Poros Greece, on our honeymoon.

Sara and Yogi

This painting is of the wife Sara, and our dog Yogi. Walking on Pothcothan beach Cornwall. It is 20" x 28" oil.

Lift off in July.

I have had a painting accepted for the Guild of Aviation Artists anual show held at the Mall galleries. Depicting the launch of the Apollo 11 mission, Saturn 5 rocket. I have no picture of it completed.
My father has exhibited for the last 30 years. Here is a link to some of his work.http://www.charlesjthompson.com/

Material Girl.

I uploaded the slideshow and it doesn't give much detail . I hope this jpg shows the detail better. If not I will try a higher res detail.

Material folds. Test.

A slide show of a test done in Photoshop. I used a William Whitaker image as ref. A good lesson, although I did spend a long time on it. I saved when I remembered as I went along and have made a simple slide show. I will put up a better jpg of the finnished pic.

Taf's girl.

Oil painting done on board and finnished in 2 hours. 7" x10"(254mm x 178mm). Hope you can see the texture. For me that is what it is all about.

Painter was used for this test. I like the pastel on textured paper and blend tool. Again I used good reference.