tiny thumbs

Here are some tiny thumbnails.  Just playing whilst chatting on the phone to a mate. No theme on these just enjoying myself:)

It has been a long old time since I updated.  Having a baby sure does keep you busy :)
I attended the London concept art workshop last week and was lucky enough to see Levi do a matte painting demo.  I loved his thumbs and he kindly segwayed into a demo of them for us.  He basically has his canvas postage stamp sized in the middle of Photoshop and does not zoom in.  His mastery of light is humbling but the process is great regardless for getting to the core of image making.  Going to do plenty of these!  You can see Levi's wonderful work here:
http://www.artoflevi.com/

lunchtime speedies from BBC's Africa

I have been loving the latest Attenborough BBC nature series: Africa.  The cinematography is just incredible.  These are all 15-20 minute speedies reffed loosely from the show.  If you have not seen it then check it out :)  All on iplayer right now:)

post 100: forest ambush!

Its the little red mech that could again.  This time about to do a forest ambush from the canopy.

freelance art dump and a baby!

Hi all, I went freelance about 10 months ago and have been having a wonderful old life since!

I have also made a beautiful little baby girl called Martha Belle.  She is amazing and being a dad is magic so far! Here she is:)  

One of the projects I have been contributing on has now been published so I can share the work from it.  I know the compositions are a little odd  in places but that's because these were all background slides and invariable had other things overlaid that were the focal points.

dragon mech

Been doing this over a few lunches.  It is a mech wrestling a dragon for my frontiersmen project.  He is really red and a bit shiny :)

Missy Malone Portrait

Hi everyone,


I have just varnished and photographed my latest finished painting.  I upped the size I work at considerably for this piece and it is 50x70cm.  I am proud of this one, it feels like a step forward for my oil painting.
This is another from a series I am working on from a shoot I did with Miss Rain Photography and Missy Malone last year. There is a bit of reflected light catching the canvas grain: I am not set up for photographing large paintings, sorry!

 close up on face

I also finished off this little piece last week.  It was done from one life session and then finished from a photo.  The fabulous moustache has long since been shaved off Dan's face :(  If you are not familiar with Dan's work then check his blog out.  Brilliant stuff: ARTSHAME

MOMA BOT

A little one off piece for the portfolio frontiersmen project:  MOMA BOT by Mutsy.  For babies in space :)