A fun experiment to see what would happen if I combined the terrors of a biomechanical space monster with the behaviours of a kitten.

A fun experiment to see what would happen if I combined the terrors of a biomechanical space monster with the behaviours of a kitten. A combination of my four illustrations for patterned prints

A fun experiment to see what would happen if I combined the terrors of a biomechanical space monster with the behaviours of a kitten.

We get a lot of squirrels where I live and after a marathon of watching these movies, a flash of inspiration came to me watching one of these guys parkour it’s way around the trees outside. I thought it would combine quite nicely for a funny and cute t-shirt design that I as a nerdy fan would love.

We get a lot of squirrels where I live and after a marathon of watching these movies, a flash of inspiration came to me watching one of these guys parkour it’s way around the trees outside. I thought it would combine quite nicely for a funny and cute t-shirt design that I as a nerdy fan would love.

We get a lot of squirrels where I live and after a marathon of watching these movies, a flash of inspiration came to me watching one of these guys parkour it’s way around the trees outside. I thought it would combine quite nicely for a funny and cute t-shirt design that I as a nerdy fan would love.

We get a lot of squirrels where I live and after a marathon of watching these movies, a flash of inspiration came to me watching one of these guys parkour it’s way around the trees outside. I thought it would combine quite nicely for a funny and cute t-shirt design that I as a nerdy fan would love.

one for the horror fans

A Limited Print, retro style poster

You must speak the words correctly

You must say the words correctly

I based my composition on the iconic cabin, the car and of course the demonic possessions themselves. Using a few reference images from the film, I managed to work together this composition and set to work painting it. Because it's a horror piece and should reflect the hand crafted aesthetic of the movie, I worked quite rough on a lot of this painting, going for a more expressionist take than my usual approach. I'm very satisfied with the final piece and especially with the title treatment added to the piece, I think it works really well as a retro horror poster that would fit nicely to the original marketing.

I based my composition on the iconic cabin, the car and of course the demonic possessions themselves. Using a few reference images from the film, I managed to work together this composition and set to work painting it. Because it's a horror piece and should reflect the hand crafted aesthetic of the movie, I worked quite rough on a lot of this painting, going for a more expressionist take than my usual approach. I'm very satisfied with the final piece and especially with the title treatment added to the piece, I think it works really well as a retro horror poster that would fit nicely to the original marketing.

I based my composition on the iconic cabin, the car and of course the demonic possessions themselves. Using a few reference images from the film, I managed to work together this composition and set to work painting it. Because it's a horror piece and should reflect the hand crafted aesthetic of the movie, I worked quite rough on a lot of this painting, going for a more expressionist take than my usual approach. I'm very satisfied with the final piece and especially with the title treatment added to the piece, I think it works really well as a retro horror poster that would fit nicely to the original marketing.

My final watercolour painting for this current set of of Animal and Nature pieces. This piece probably looks the most different from my original take of the animal, This time I opted for a more heavily shadowed tone and less attention to detail, just letting the paint do the work.

A return to my work on bird paintings, I decided to revist african grey parrots. On my original, the feather patterns were much more complex than those of the owls, so after some practice over the few years, I’ve managed to work out a method of painting these to correction.

I recently painted this pumpkin as a decoration for a friend. I quite liked the outcome so I decided to scan it in and use it for some new prints

The past few weeks, I’ve been watching the grey squirrels in the trees behind our house foraging for food to hibernate over winter. I’ve always liked squirrels so I wanted to produce a new art piece of one to go along with my other wildlife paintings. I’ve tried attracting them to our feeder in the garden, but the pigeons seem to be taking over.

A few years ago now I produced a watercolour painting of an Orangutan that’s proved to be quite popular. So now years later, a little wiser and little more skilled with the brush I’ve produced a follow up piece. I didn’t want to do another full body one because frankly the face of an Orangutan is too great to pass up painting. Personally I prefer this version and I may have to revisit more of my previous wildlife paintings like this

An original painting, turned limited print

An original painting, turned limited print

An original painting, turned limited print

A new addition to my Gothic Western set of paintings. I've been wanting to get back into this set for a while but between commissions and poster art I've not found the time. So this piece is inspired by the lyric 'On Horses Snortin' Fire' from the classic country western tale of 'Riders in the Sky' On listening carefully to the lyrics, that one gripped my imagination and the idea of a skeletal figure riding on a semi-skeletal horse, and a flurry of flames billowing from it's nostrils really took to me. So I began sketching out what I had in mind, the figure of Death riding on this horse at it rears into the sky will an expressionist approach to painting depicting this flamethrower of energy coming from it's face.

He may be just an intern, but in the lead up to season 4, this character is the one im looking forward to seeing the most continuing on my watercolour collection of Rick and Morty™ designs, this is my first of hopefully many to come from season 4

The first of possibly many paintings in a series of Gothic Western pieces. I originally started this piece months ago, only just now finding the time to finish it off. For this piece I focused more on mark making than composition, my aim being to experiment with scratching paint away, heavy applications versus thin applications, texture techniques and ways of conveying interesting light sources. In summary it was a chance to experiment with what I can do with paint and learning new texture making techniques. More than anything I wanted to get the background right (which should really be the last priority), but creating a grimey background whilst still being saturated with light and colour was one of my main goals.

A2 Watercolour on card This piece took a while to paint but I'm happy with the end result. This is one of my favourite films and I've done a few paintings using it as a theme but this image in particular is one I've planned on painting for a long while. I really like the setup of the compositon, it's almost like a comedic twist on The Last Supper, only instead of a temple, it's a bowling alley.

Ink on card This began as a quick rough sketch, but as I enjoyed working on it, I decided to finish it off. I'm very happy with the end result.

An experimental ink sketch of a great music icon. For this piece I sketched out the line work using ink and a bamboo stick to give it a scratchy line. I then soaked the piece in water and painted on ink to create tone but also letting it bleed naturally. Finally I used a white pen to add some highlights

My second animal painting allowed me to test out some pro-markers that I had yet to use. They worked well for providing a good base coat on colour for the background areas

My first work into animal based paintings, starting with this panda piece. I chose a panda to start with to see how I can experiment with bleeding inks to create a fur like texture.

My Fifth animals watercolour project. I experimented with using copic markers on this piece to give the colour a boost in saturation which I think worked nicely to create a strong vibrant piece.

This dopey dog is a portrait of Boo Boo, my girlfriend’s dog. He’s clumsy but loveable

This stripey chap is a favourite of my animal pieces. The key thing with this piece is the simplicity, the zebra itself, (Equus quagga) was easy enough to paint, all it took was a blue base wash and white and black ink overlays, but combined with the splatter style background it makes for a great graphics style piece and nice composition.

Panthera leo better known as the Lion. One of my favourite animal experiment paintings, For the fur sections I bled colour tones of oranges, reds and yellows to create a firey autumn skin. The mane was a bit more challenging and took time as I painted each hair section individually using a thin brush and built up layers of colour to create depth.

This is the second of a set of pet portraits that I recently finished for a local dogsitters. I loved working on all four of these pieces and had great reference images to work from. Each piece is A3 and produced with watercolour paints and additionally acrylics were added to fill in the white areas and provide texture. This one was a fun composition to work with. Capturing any detail from the dog itself was difficult since a lot of it's face is covered, but the overall reference image was too cosy to not paint and I think it came out great.

My final watercolour piece of 2017. This piece is one of my favourites. Painted using watercolours and finished with soft pastels to smooth over areas of the fur, this piece takes what I have learnt through the entire animal painting project and applies the skills and techniques to this final piece. As it’s also winter I wanted to add a hint of the season with a new background technique developed from my penguin piece where in I softly blended cool tones together however this time I added drops of white watercolour to the colour while wet to create a soft blurred snowy effect