Everyone loves a good train set

Santa playing with his trainset - bit early for Christmas talk but seeing as I just painted this I thought I'd post it up.

Florence trip

I recently went on a trip to the beautiful city of Firenze. This is an oil sketch done in Via Beccheria in the ancient town of Lucca which we went to on a day trip. Got to give respect to those artists who paint scenes day in day out for the tourists - it's high pressure painting under people's watchful gaze.

The painting is for sale here https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/475316943/the-girl-in-the-blue-dress

Skinny Skinhead

 

I saw this skinny skinhead walk by when I was in London, she looked pretty cool so I sketched her.

Swash and buckle

Working on a swashbuckling pirate graphic novel. Trying to pin down the lead character with some Clark Gable-ness to him.

Santa for any season

Spring, summer, autumn, winter - I paint Santa Claus

Summer

Resonance

Strange happenings...........

Madonna and child

Wedding card illustration

The Hunter and the Eagle

Trying a new graphic style.

Portrait study

Portrait done using a limited palette of mostly orange. Good fun trying to work on Sargent's advice of holding to the midtone.

Sneak attack

Who's there?

Sketching around trying to understand the fall off of lamp light a bit better.

Sheep at sunrise

 
Thought I'd post something as I haven't for a while.

Rupturing Rapture

'Rupturing Rapture' book cover illustration

Short-eared owl

 

Female head studies

Mum-to-be

Card design celebrating mums.

White on white

Christmas card design for the U.S. market.

Tour de France

Card design for fans of Tour de France.

Female head study

Female head study.

3 carollers

I did this a while ago, quite a nice warm lighting situation.

Big window little choir

Big choir

Moved the camera up and to the left from the previous one to try a different viewpoint.

Carols by candlelight

Church choir card design. I went to a Nathan Fowkes workshop on colour and light last weekend through Schoolism. So I am trying to work out how to implement some of the principles Nathan talked about to improve my work. Practise will make perfect.

Christmas Special steam engine

Why does Santa have a train as well as a magical sleigh? This is a good question- most likely for entering countries with restricted airspace.

Over the Threshold

She's the one

Wedding card design. Sticking to pastel colours.

Going bridal

New wedding card design. Going for simple and elegant with this one.