A break from watercolours

I was painting in the studio today and decided to photograph some bits and bobs that i had lying around.

I have knocked my watercolours on the head. I keep dabbling across to many different areas and am ending up Jake of all trades, master of nowt! I loved doing them but realistically I have miles to go before I end up with anything decent...

I had a bit of an epiphany and decided that I really ought to try and limit my art activities to concept art and oil paintings as they are my two main joys. So here are my last couple of watercolour bits as well as a few plein air oils.

I am busy doing a film project with some mates and also have a a batch of concept art and some oils in progress but its all pretty long term stuff.

Chin chin my dears. What what!

Sudbury Hall
A seagull
A sunset. The horrid separation of the green fields and the orange sky kills me on this one but I was learning lots about application through Nita Engle's wonderful book.
Lots of Nita Engle texture technique on this but another failure overall
A splendid tree painted en plein air from the grounds at Sudbury Hall. I love a good tree.
Plein air oil from Sudbury. Ran out of time but learned a lot through doing this.
I did this one ages ago but only photographed it today.

stuff!

Its been a while since I updated this thing. I have been super busy with various art stuffs. I just finished a coule of sheets or robot thumbs and decided to upload a few other digital bits and bobs that were gathering computer dust. The first one is reffed from a famous photo of the lovely Brit Eckland. I did it a few months ago as a warm up for doin the burlesque drawings.
I have a few things that are nearing completion so pop back soon!

A lesson learned!

On a recent painting trip it rained and I kept painting anyway. The rain fell on my palette and painting but the oil and water seemed to stay separate. I did my best en plein air piece so far...

I left it alone in the studio to dry and came back a few days later. I was pretty gutted by what I saw. The whole piece was now covered with a network or cracks and all the darks had chalked out. Stupid rain and stupid Jake! The problem was exacerbated by the fact that the board I used had a heavy amount of old (several months dry) paint on it so the old thin over lean rule was broken.

I will be adding a big umbrella to my painting kit asap.

Here is the piece including a detail:

Pennies for paint

My lovely wife has started her own business so we are pretty tight financially now. I need to make my art pay for itself so am selling off my en plein air and burlesque work here:

ORIGINAL ARTWORK FOR SALE

The prices are extremely modest as all I need is enough to buy paint and supports. It might be a fine old investment for you. If you see something on my general blog that you are interested in that is not on my art for sale blog then please shout up. Thanks guys!

Prints For Sale

The incredible Missy Malone is now selling prints of the series of pin-up illustrations I did of her. Pop along to her website & buy a set! I am proud of this series, they are great fun!

BUY PRINTS HERE

Huge thanks to Miss Rain Photography for Emma's wonderful photography. You can see Emmas work here: http://www.missrain.co.uk/

Holiday Watercolours

My lovely wife and I spent last week in Dorset. I managed to do a fair bit of painting with my watercolours. The landscapes are about 50/50 plein air/ from photography.

These first three are separate to the holiday. Fist is a drawing of Millie Dollar, the other two are more gouache paintings of Lud's Church.

feedback wanted

Hi all,
I am going to be selling soe prints of this series. Missy Malone will be taking them on the road with her to sell to her adoring fans. Initially we were going to just use the pencil lineart but I got a little feedback and made the toned versions below.
What do you all think? They will have a very low price point per print (less than £10) but I think the toned versions make it feel like more of a colecatble set...