Painting

INFO: 2024, digital painting Like most of my large scale paintings this again took longer than planned. This was mostly due to the tweaks required, once all the various parts had been painted, to make the goblin and animals on the right side of the…

INFO: 2024, digital painting This took much longer than the previous realism piece – around 310hrs in total over three years due to the detail required on the three figures and mid ground elements aswell as the patterned textiles on the couch and mattress. I…

INFO: 2022, digital painting Another painting that took longer to do than I expected. The abstract cave walls needed alot of trial and error both in shape and tone. Critique: the gradient cat reflection does’nt really fit with the flat style of the rest of…

INFO: 2021, digital painting This took a long time to do – around 110 hours spread over two years. The boat perspective lines and long grasses in the wind proved to be particularly tricky. The printing process itself took some trial and error too as…

INFO: 2021, digital painting My second attempt at a painting based on the Brother’s Grimm story The Three Gifts. As mentioned before I didn’t like the undefined style I used the first time round. I tried to make this version more 2D and geometric. I…

INFO: 2019, digital painting A bit of a gloomy concept (a chapter header quote from a Colin Dexter Inspector Morse novel) but also, I thought, kind of Buddhist like – the things and ideas we accumulate in life that arent ultimately very important. The beach…

INFO: 2019, digital painting The overall tone and color palette worked out well enough for this piece aswell as the sky/flowers pointing to the action. I think it fitted with the accompanying orchestral composition too. Critique: the background tree silhouette needed more work, it should…

INFO: 2018, digital painting I seem to come up with most of my painting concept ideas while out walking up the fields around the house/area where I grew up. There was one large field and copse of trees in particular I used to play in…

INFO: 2018, digital painting Yet another painting based on a story (The Three Gifts) from the collection of fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm and part of the larger composition project. Critique: This was a messy confusion of styles (should be less realism and more…

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