Work in Progress

This is my latest oil series (a work in progress). Seeing it now has made me realise I should have used a compass! The stripes I painted in acrylic to give it a sharp, flat contrast to the realism and texture of the oil paint. The white shirt will be painting in medium toned magenta. To be specific quinacridone from Winsor and Newton

Ruby x

Studies

Watercolour studies for new paintings

Working on the small scale to hopefully blow them up into large developed oil paintings. Also planning to edit and manipulate these watercolours on photoshop to make some digital prints which I'll be printing in small editions on good quality paper.

Also, our zine, The Freed Man (Written by Edward and illustrated by yours truly) is finished and is being printed this week! Its a four part story about a very creative serial killer who, through the help of rigamortis, turns his victims into works of art. It's all written in prose! I'll keep you posted as to how to get a copy. We're really proud of the final product.

Works in Progress of Gloria and Kane

Slowly chipping away at these. I have many concerns. I don't like the washed-out-ness of Gloria's arm, however improvising otherwise looks worse so I've decided to stick with the photograph. I'm not a huge fan of photorealism, but I'm not sure I have much choice - directly quoting the photo - at this point. Kane's black hoodie is proving to be very difficult. I haven't worked on it for some time so I'm looking forward to it. Thoughts?



Something interesting that just occured to me. Gloria's eye is pretty much in the center of the composition! I think Rembrant is famous for doing this. It wasn't intentional I must admit, but maybe I can play with this in future compositions..!

Watercolour study with glitter

This is a watercolour study I did on CA Grain paper with tacky red glitter. Trying to glam it up a little and explore what happens to the illusion when I glue things to the picture plane...

Have a look at my facebook folder of my arts from this year.

Work in Progress of Gloria

Frauleins Orchard Show

Our opening night for the Frauleins Orchard show was a huge success! It was so busy, people were waiting outside the gallery room to see the work. It was held at Urban Cow Studio Gallery, and concludes on the 28th of June. Producing these works has been a really nice break from my tonal realist works which are very draining. Here are some quick (low budg.!) snaps of my works in this show.

L>R: Kane (sold), Ruby #1(sold), Ruby #2

L>R: Edward #1, Edward #2 (sold), Edward #3 (sold)

L>R: Gloria #1, Gloria #2, Gloria #3

In total I exhibited 9 portraits and 5 heart paintings. On the night 4 portraits and one heart sold (directly above). Big thanks to the other tallented and lovely Frauleins, my models and Ed - the best handy man hanger. xx

Bead Bird Studies

Thought I'd try out some beading on some bird studies I've done in oil paint. I like the jewel-like, flattening affects the beads have. Thinking about using this on my large portraits..