Charlie Bucket.

Oil on Canvas 14" x 20"

This is the painting that has been sitting on my easle for around a year now. I am trying to find some inspiration and or referance to help with the water to the right of Charlie's head. I am quite happy with most of the water effect but it is the reflective /depth that I have struggled with so it waits to be finished.

Any comments and or pointers would be great.

Bow church.

Ok, I apologise for the time without posting. As I have said before a lot going on in my life. Maybe I will put it on here, maybe not.

This is another of my London scenes and I have struggled with it for a while. I don't want to get into too much detail. my inspiration was the lighting. So I will leave it for a while before signing it, my way of knowing the painting is finished.

Sara and Yogi oil painting

A painting from a photo taken on holiday 2008 in Cornwall.

I want to have an exhibition of paintings of dog walking and think I have about four or five/ Not sure how many I need to have a show...

London stock exchange.

Another London painting, 30 x 40 cm oil on canvas.

I hope to get a collection of these paintings and see if a gallery will try and sell them!

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.