Original Oil Paintings

Life Drawing - Matt

2007-05-25T06:07:00.000+01:00

Large lifedrawings of Matt (about A1). Drawn pretty quickly where the model would adopt a pose that could only be held for a few minutes.
Medium: Charcoal.

Flower Oil Painting (Impasto)

2007-04-05T04:45:00.000+01:00

This small floral painting is about A5 in size.
I think rather than use a brush, i used anything that was to hand in the studio: a small scrap of card or wood.

Life Model

2007-03-19T18:33:00.000Z

This life drawing was done with charcoal pencil and green pencil.
On card rather than white paper.

Ink Drawing: Cat in Motion

2007-03-10T00:24:00.000Z

Title: That Shaky Leg Thing that Cats Do.
Ink on Paper
Slightly smaller than A3
This took seconds, but it took many tries until I got what I wanted.
SOLD
Property of S&S

Glass of Water Oil Painting

2007-02-28T05:09:00.000Z

Title: Surge.
This oil painting is 80cm x 100cm.
I was attracted by the simple play of light through the glass and of the ripple pattern on the side of the glass, which gave a certain dynamism to an otherwise static picture.

SOLD

Confido Preparatory Drawing

2007-02-26T03:18:00.000Z

This is a preparatory pencil sketch for my Confido self portrait.

Melon and Frog Pencil Drawing

2006-09-03T04:54:00.000+01:00

Title: Natural Selection: Melon and Frog.
This is a drawing that took quite a long time to complete.
The frog is a plastic model.
Medium: Pencil on paper.
Image is SOLD

Pond

2006-06-16T14:59:00.000+01:00

This painting is called "Pond."
The arms have been pulled off a plastic He-man figure.
It's a large painting at 5 x 6 feet.
Painted with alkyd and oil paint.

Buoy

2006-05-16T01:45:00.000+01:00

This is an etching that has been overpainted. It is a reworking of a larger painting, Gravitas Still life, that I posted before. Although in this version I have rotated the image 90º anti-clockwise.

The paper was treated with clear acrylic resin before applying the oil paint.

Art Shop

2006-05-10T03:46:00.000+01:00

Be one of the first to buy this amazing mousemat!
Thought I'd try out opening a cafepress shop here.
and added a link to it in the column to the right.
Pretty cool, easy to set up. Even Dilbert has a cafepress shop!
Maybe more items will get added later. Check back for updates.

Confido

2006-05-09T06:46:00.000+01:00

This painting is 24 inches square. It is a self portrait, based on my family motto "Confido." The family motto was on my keyring (hand symbol) so I included the set of keys in the foreground.

Location is in a kitchen and has a biblical feel to it as well. The oil jar, and mortar and pestle in the background are, at the same time, cooking instruments and tools of the artist.

Oil on canvas.

Observatory

2006-05-08T07:39:00.000+01:00

This painting is called Observatory, not because there is an astronomical building nearby, but because it's an area near my home where I can see the stars a little better.

Going for a walk at night time in this area, the stars are more visible than from most places in town. Light pollution usually interferes, but from here I've even seen a few satellites.

Painting is alkyd and oil paint.
22 inches wide.
SOLD

Little Brother Figure Painting

2006-05-07T04:15:00.000+01:00

"Little Brother Colin".
Yes, another inventive title for a painting. :p Sometimes it's easier describing what is in the picture.
And those are my feet at the bottom of the image. Colin posed for this picture but didn't stay awake for very long.
Cremnitz white oil paint was used in this to give it a more bulked up quality.
Painting is about 24 inches square.

Encaustic Portrait

2006-05-06T03:15:00.000+01:00

This 12 inch square piece was really an experimental artwork.
It is encaustic (wax) over oil paint.
Only 3 solid colours were used underneath, blue, red and pink, painted
with oil colour.
Over that I used wax with different pigments. A hot stylus was used to melt
the wax, a bit like a low power soldering iron.
The wax allows light to penetrate it a little before bouncing back out again,
giving a strange skin like quality. Scratching into the wax brought back the shocking red ground again.
Inspired by fayoum portraits I saw in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York,
which I visited a few years back.

Small Nude

2006-05-05T00:46:00.000+01:00

This is painting of a Milanese model.
This artwork was created again without the use of a brush.
Little pieces of card board were used to manipulate the paint on
the surface.
It's very small, just a few inches across.
Oil and spectragel on board,
Sold.

Pylon Man

2006-05-04T04:25:00.000+01:00

This one is called Pylon Man.
It's Oil on canvas, measuring 22 x 20 inches.
I painted a smaller version of it before doing
this one. Maybe I'll post that one later.

SOLD

Glebe Impasto

2006-05-03T01:24:00.000+01:00

This is called "Glebe".
It's oil paint on acrylic primed board.
Can't remember the exact dimensions of it
but I don't think it was more than 22 inches wide.
Using different tools, card, and sticks to make the marks
can be quite engrossing. Actually I don't think a brush was
used at all for this one.
A little diversion away from the more figurative paintings I usually
make.
Sold.

Lara Croft and Turps

2006-05-02T05:07:00.000+01:00

In this painting the idea of having a still life, and a human figurine
in the picture at the same time appealed to me.
The picture is titled "Two Bottles", one is an empty turpentine bottle,
while the other is a bottle of Lucozade, with the image of Lara Croft.

Image is 16 x 20 inches,
oil on acrylic primed canvas.

Enjoyable painting the subtle greys, and contrasting that with the zing
of the highly coloured bottle.

Uninverted Vertigo

2006-04-30T23:38:00.000+01:00

Another very large painting. This one is called "Uninverted Vertigo"and
is 8 feet x 5 feet.
Oil on acrylic primed canvas.
It was painted fairly quickly, with a more loose handling of the paint.
The plastic figure was placed on the edge of a chair.
I liked the fact that the figure had two different coloured arms.

Abstract Arrangement

2006-04-29T20:58:00.000+01:00

This painting is simply an image of the contents of a kitchen cupboard.
As I opened the door, the shapes and colours just seemed to be organised
in a certain way. I thougth of them just as shapes and colours, not as objects,
so I called it "Abstract Arrangement". It took quite a while to finish.

It's measures about 100cm x 80cm.
Oil and alkyd on linen.
Sold.

Gravitas Still Life

2006-04-28T05:34:00.000+01:00

Another of my paintings. This one is called Gravitas Still Life.
It is painted with alkyd and oil paint over acrylic primed canvas.
Canvas measurements are 5 feet x 6 feet. Quite big.
Also the canvas is mounted on a box style frame so is about 3 inches deep.
The subject matter is of a plastic figure, on a table mat.

Still Life Oil Painting.

2006-04-26T14:32:00.000+01:00

"Game still life"
This is alkyd/oil on canvas.
7 feet x 5 feet.
Sold.