Wednesday, 29 June 2022

Jigsaw illustrations









A variety of recent jigsaw illustrations
 

Sunday, 22 May 2022

Vintage Trams Jigsaw Puzzle

 Just received this complementary jigsaw from Jumbo Puzzles for the tram illustration that I did for them. I took the approach of showing each tram in a different weather or lighting situation to add to the interest. I put in a Sunderland tram as well as a little homage to my hometown. I'm happy with the result - the image has come out nicely and the quality of the pieces themselves feels really good.

Friday, 28 January 2022

Sunderland


No 15, 9am, 26.01.22
Painting around the neighbourhood


 

Sunday, 23 January 2022

Saturday, 22 January 2022

Santa illustration


Santa waving digital pen ink and wash illustration

 

The nativity



Illustration of a nativity scene with wise men and shepherds visiting the baby Jesus at the stable.

Santa and the snowman


 Santa and his reindeer giving a present to his friend the snowman.


Prints here: Santa and the snowman Art Print by Daniel Rodgers | Society6

Santa has a bad day




 

As part of an awareness campaign for Heart Research UK I was tasked with creating three good and three bad versions of illustrations featuring Santa. The bad versions had him having a heart attack in various situations to highlight the problems of obesity.

Santa illustrations




3 card illustrations done for Heart Research UK as part of their Christmas healthy heart campaign
 

Cambridge Children's Botanical Garden


 Cambridge Children's Botanical Garden illustration for a jigsaw.

Thursday, 11 November 2021

Potential Energy



Falcon 9 and Dragon vertical on Launch Complex 39A digital painting

Hopefully one day I can get into orbit or beyond.
Until then I'll be hanging around the launchpad gathering potential energy.


Tuesday, 9 November 2021

 


Illustration of Joshua encountering Jesus before the battle of Jericho.
13 Now when Joshua was near Jericho, he looked up and saw a man standing in front of him with a drawn sword in his hand. Joshua went up to him and asked, “Are you for us or for our enemies?”
14 “Neither,” he replied, “but as commander of the army of the Lord I have now come.” Then Joshua fell facedown to the ground in reverence, and asked him, “What message does my Lord have for his servant?”
15 The commander of the Lord’s army replied, “Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy.” And Joshua did so.

Tuesday, 6 April 2021

Nativity designs



 Nativity designs for American Greetings

Monday, 21 December 2020

Elaine


 

Recent portrait of Elaine Chong with a dash of caricature thrown in.

Sunday, 20 September 2020

The Happy Bear


 Recent childrens book illustration

Monday, 10 August 2020

Mother and son

 

A quiet moment by lake Galilee.

Friday, 22 May 2020

The Ugly Duckling


She was always different to the other mermaids, probably because her Dad was an octopus.

Portrait of a Japanese Sakhalin Husky





I saw him sitting quite statuesquely on his kennel and though it would make a great image for a portrait. Dogs has strangely human expressions when you look at them for a long time.


Pug life


Saturday, 25 April 2020

Bartok's Insect Emporium




’The sun shone through uneven cloud cover with a bright grey light. Below the basket the stalls and barrows lay like untidy spillage. The city reeked. But today was market day in Aspic Hole, and the pungent slick of dung smell and rot that rolled over New Crobuzon was, in these streets, for these hours, improved with paprika and fresh tomato, hot oil and fish and cinammon, cured meat, banana and onion.
The food stalls stretched the noisy length of Shadrach Street. Books and manuscripts and pictures filled up Selchit Pass, an avenue of desultory banyans and crumbling concrete a little way to the east. The rows of merchandise converged crookedly on Aspic Hole like spokes on a broken wheel.
In the Hole itself all distinctions broke down – members of strange races bought peculiar things, and there the lascivious costermonger, Bartok the Beetle merchant, traded in all things creepy and crawling from his Emporium of Insects.
Aspic Bazaar, a blaring mess of goods, grease and tallymen. Mercantile law ruled: Let the buyer beware.’
An illustration inspired by Perdido Street Station by China Mieville

Memories of Peking



'Memories of Peking'

View of the summer house in the gardens of the Forbidden City, Beijing.

50x50cm

Oil on canvas

Nini

A little portrait painting I finished off over Easter. 

Oil on canvas. 



10x14in available.