Monday, August 19, 2013

'Myth & Mooar'


Behold, the exhibition with Julie Roberts and myself. Cant wait to meet everyone, it's been a while since I have left the house! Still I hope it will be a success for us and the Isle Gallery - they need all the support they can get.

On The Edge

(Acrylic)

This was painted during the WOSAT Trail, among the other landscape thumbnails. Again, straight from my own thumbnail reference my approach was just colour and perspective. Painting landscapes are far more relaxing that taking anatomy and character design into account and that most of the time I have no background to my characters.... not sure why! The cliff edge and the man, looking on ahead to the path, hoping it will be a clearer and opportunistic level for the migration



Thursday, August 8, 2013

Tree Spirits






The first of several tree Spirits to come. Each one will be titled in two words, depicting an emotion that the spirits represent. The inlay (drawing) is around A5, with a black-flecked mount and will have a birch wood frame. But there will be two poster size drawings for sale during the event, which I will be showing by the end of this month. I hope everyone will appreciate the simplicity of the subject and its detail. 

Wednesday, August 7, 2013

"I See You"


This is the only colour example I have for what is roughly to come later this month. The Actual work will be in black & white, but I felt the need to colour this drawing in. I feel as though this should belong in a Narrative, which gives me another idea for a future story I wish to write and Illustrate called: 'The Manxology'. A project that will be worked upon privately for the following year or two.

Monday, August 5, 2013

The Tree's are talking!

Chalk & Charcoal
This is a study of a tree from my imagination, the only reference I had was a branch, around shoulder height. This actually broke off at work during the heavy snow earlier this year. I begin with creating gestural marks, letting my subconscious do some of the work, whilst still maintaining control and achieving the organic movement of the tree. I then started to go into detail with charcoal and a little pencil using the bark and crack marks from the branch. I'm not sure what species of tree it is in my mind, but I felt very connected with this drawing and will be producing more... but as tree spirits! This is all toward an exhibition I will be having with another Fairytale Artist down at the 'Isle Gallery, Tynwald Mills.