Painter torso

A quick sketch in Corel Painter. The blender tool that I had been using isn't working as well as before.

Sara in Hat.

An Oil of wife, Sara, 16" x 16". Wanted to keep a looseness to the work and let the colours be my main focus. The first of the year, I want to keep them coming.

I have put my drawings and paintings of my family in a book :http://www.blurb.com/my/store

Corel Painter nude 2

Another Corel Painter life drawing. I have tried to limit my brushes to one oil brush and a blend brush.

Prehaps I should try and pick something simpler to tackle.

Danny at Southend

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU.

This painting was done on a Gesso covered MDF board 10" x 12" (260 x 310 cm) in oil.
It was the baisis for this years Christmas card.
I had been meaning to put it up sooner but its been a tough time at home emotionally.
Still I am going to try and do more painting this year.

Painter Test

I lost all my brush pallets in Corel Painter, so I decided to try and create a new load of brushes, includong blenders, while doing a test. I think it is the best way as you are using the brush for a real application. Here I found a brilliant, loose, painting and used it for referance. I now have two blenders and an oil brush although I am not happy with the oil brush yet.

Fantasy art!

Ok its been a while, all sorts of things going on but not been anything I can post. Here is an image I have been fiddling with for a week or so. A possible job for the studio was to produce a CGI poster for a martial arts game. No real brief as the job got blown out but I just cobbled some ideas together. I didn't do enough design for the thing, as I say there was no real brief. but looking at ImageFX mag I wanted to try something similar.

Car in Photoshop.

Coupe design. I was trying to take one of my scribbles and neaten it up in Photoshop. I tend to find that my initial drawing becomes too simplified and looses its energy. But the colours are nice.

Pastel Painter.

Another attempt at Corel Painter and the Pastel/Chalk tools. Not quite finnished but having fun with the blender tool also.

David Lynch

Just a little work on the detailing and smoothing of some areas.

Nearly there.

I have done a fair amount to the image in the last post. Added more canvas and even done some measuring to get the proportions right.
I have found that I have to set canvas to 'artists canvas' when openening the file again to keep the texture. Working in Corel Painter IX by the way. Using the chalk brush and blender tool.

Unfinished Corel Painter

I found a picture of the director David Lynch and thought it would make a nice subject to try out Corel Painter.
This is how far I have got after just under 3 hours.
Will try and finish it soon and show the result.

Photoshop test

This a video of the photoshot test I did back in July. A good size copy of this is on an earlier blog below.

I started the layout and then moved it down before finishing the piece.

At the easel for 30mins.

This picture was taken by one of my boys, Danny.
I had 30 minutes to paint before the family was going out so I decided to paint the view from the cottage patio.
I would have finished but I decided to add some sheep (they came into the field next to the cottage) and this slowed me down.
I will finish them and post the end product.

The view.

This is the view, to give you some idea of what I changed.

The painting.

Work still to do in forground. Make more interest in the rock line and grass areas.

Walking the dog..and painting!

So I finally got away with the family for a small holiday and managed a couple of quick paintings.

Not finished but here is some pics I took on my phone of the event.

Yes it was nice and hot on the coast in Poole Dorset. Yogi found some shade behind the seat but I managed to get sun burned.

Nearly there.

Ok I have spent long enough on this image. It still isn't like my original concept but I am a little happier with it. Will try and dig out some of my scribbles for another time.

CAR PHOTOSHOP

This is an image created in photoshop.. Its not quite finished but I have wanted to get it posted for a while as I am going to alter it and want to see if I can get to what I was originaly after with the design.

I feel that as I finish up a design it loses its 'life' and becomes stiff and stagnent. Original idea came from a great image of a Vauxhall Astra coupe, although the title of the image was 'Holdensmallcar'.

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.