Dominance War 5 mini comp entry

Finished this!

50 followers. Woooooooooo

I have clawed my way up to 50 followers. Good times :)
Here are a some odds and ends. One is a charcoal drawing of the local Mayor. Another page is of thumbnails of my psy-chic characters.
The other page of thumbs are compoitional/tonal arrangement ideas for a painting I will hopefully be doing of a burlesque performer who uses fire in her routine. Exciting!

The Minder

Finished this a few weeks ago but wanted to make sure i liked it before i posted it up:

Girl In a Jar

I painted this from a photo that I took at Dr sketchy nottingham. You can see my 10 minute drawing of the same pose further back on my blog. The performer is Amelie Soleil from the Freyed Knot group.
I am pleased with this one, I think it my most successful piece since I began with Oils again last year.

Life Drawings

Recent life drawings. 10-20 mins charcoal on newsprint

Dr Sketchy drawings

These are all drawings from Dr Sketcy Nottingham sessions. The first one is probably my favourite 10 mins of drawing ever. A girl in a jar. I am doing a version in oils right now. Woo hoo! Most of these are 5-10 mins a couple may be up to 15. Dr Sketchy is ACE!

Paintings and stuff

Hi everyone. This dump is a fairly mixed bag. The 3 broadly treated portraits are from the sessions at the West Hallam Portrait Group. The monochrome one was my first (rather bad) attempt at doing a Grisaille study. It was very interesting to do, so much quicker than painting in colour and really lets you focus on tone and edges. I will be doing more of these soon.

This one I revisited after the initial day of painting as I was not happy with the overall contrast. It got a bit fiddly in the end. Use the biggest brush you can for the job at hand!


This one is of my wife and was a much longer painting.
I did this as a birthday gift for my fine old friend Mr Chapman. He is such an excellent fellow and also is Batman!
Charcoal portrait. Begining of a long learning curve but i enjoyed it and learnt a great deal doing it!