Category: Art

New Painting – Angel Guy

I finally finished my angel guy.. I manified him a bit more, but I think he may have looked more interesting as an elf/alien in drag. Will upload a speed paint soon

New Painting – Work in Progress, a male angel

I’ve been working on this male face for a few days, its only the second male I’ve painted so I still have to tweak his features a bit. I think he looks very feminine which could be due to his shaped eyebrows, the shading around his eyes and the slightly pouted lips. I’ve also been…

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Video – Angel guy inking

Watch me ink this sketch of Conor McLain, the fan cast Sebastian Morgenstern from the Mortal instruments. This sketch was made as part of a Life Book 2015 Angel guy lesson

Life book lesson – shadow and light

This was a life book lesson in the use of shadow and light, I used stencils in mine and lots of grunge layers with acrylic inks, Dylusions sprays, fluid acrylics and water-soluble crayon :) It will be used as a background for another painting. I took inspiration from the book cover of Cassandra Clare’s Infernal…

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My New Midori Sketchbook

I got a new leather Midori notebook from ebay and made some handsewn inserts following a tutorial from the lovely Ray Blake  I’ve been using one of the inserts as a sketchbook, here are a few sketches

New painting – ‘Feel your feelings’

This was a life book lesson which I took in a new direction. I was in a pretty bad mood when I started painting it and tried to convey some of that in the portrait and gave it the title ‘feel your feelings’. It was also a practice lesson in painting 3/4 faces. Her name…

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Reculver cycle ride on the Kent coast

Hi all, I went on an amazing cycle ride yesterday along the Kent coast from Margate to Reculver in order to capture some images of the amazing medieval ruins there. I brought my DSLR and camcorder with me,  the DSLR was fitted with an infrared filter which allowed me to capture the atmospheric shots below….

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Jane Davenport whimsy portrait painting lesson

I’m finally getting on with my Jane Davenport ‘Express Yourself’ online course. This was one of the first lessons where we learnt how to paint a ‘Jane’ style face. She is so cute! and I enjoyed practicing painting hair.