Doodle Abstract Paintings

My starting Doodles

I've been developing my abstract style based on some of my doodles. I think I am going to be very busy as I have loads, this first image is a glimpse of where I start and the final 3 abstract paintings are where you can see the designs and how I used them. As you can see I add bits and take bits out as I develop my painting. I am really looking forward to painting some more. The artist that has most influenced my abstract work is Paul Klee.
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Pictures Within
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Phantom City
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The Conductor
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Pop-Up Shop

Unfortunately, the Pop-up Shop in West Bromwich is looking for new premises, hopefully it won't be too long before everyone's work is back on sale again.

Society 6

Really pleased that 3 of my recent "hare" artworks have been selected to appear in the Society 6 shop.

http://society6.com/product/White-Hare-at-Sunset_Print#1=45
http://society6.com/product/Hare-at-Pendle-Hill_Print#1=45
http://society6.com/product/Hare-with-Standing-Stones_Print#1=45

White Hare at Sunset

Hare at Pendle Hill

Hare with Standing Stones

Happy Christmas

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all my Family, Friends, Clients, Followers and … Everyone really.

I hope you all have a wonderful time!

All my love and best wishes.



Buy my Christmas cards here.

Twisted Targets

Twisted Targets

I'm working on a personal project at the moment, creating strange beings for archery and shooting practice. I'm really looking forward to receiving my prints and after trying them out, I will be extremely busy sending out lots of emails. Hopefully, I shall be selling these for Christmas. I've also set up a separate blog for these 'Twisted Targets' http://twisted-targets.blogspot.co.uk and I need to update my website. These are just great to shoot at :)

Orcs

I was asked if I could paint some Orc target faces for my local archery club. These will be put on dummies for next years Middle Earth show in Birmingham, but I'm sure once the kids at Hamstead Hall School get hold of them, they might have to print some more :) .

Orc Archery Target Faces

New Gifts at my Zazzle Shop

I've been busy creating lots of new artwork and making gifts for my shop.  Lots of creating with my own patterns.


Browse other gifts from Zazzle.

Sneak Preview - Christmas Cards

Decorating the Tree

I've been designing some Christmas cards to target some companies and thought I would just give a sneak preview of one of them. I really like snowmen, so created a series of cards with this theme.  Acrylic paint, pen work and paper trees - all scanned in and finalised in Photoshop.

Inside Book Illustration

My All

I recently completed a commission for a short story illustration. The image was created using watercolour, graphite crayon, charcoal, pen and acrylic paint and as always finalised in Photoshop. The story had a slightly dark tone so I wanted to try and capture this feeling in the work.

Hand Rendered Type

Vintage Clothes Mag

Disco Diva's

Quote by Ocar Wilde

Camden Town

I've been exploring hand rendered type, another growing passion of mine and came up with these images.  I wanted to create a vintage feel and put to use some of my images and backgrounds. The backgrounds are from my previous post.

Soil Texture Background

Soil Texture

This work has been produced as a background for some educational resources on soil texture and has really inspired me to create some more art based on this theme. Most definitely going to get started on it now.

Magic Rocks Illustration

Magic Rocks Illustration

I just couldn't resist putting this one on my blog. The photos are a bit rubbish but I'm sure when the real photos are added by the School of Science it will be fine.

Rock Book Illustration

River Rapids

I'm currently working on a project for children's educational resources. This project has been ongoing and hopefully is due to be published this Summer. This is one of the illustrations that I've just finished. Three more to go before the next lot :) love this project.

T-shirts at DTGprintz

Little Ergot at Etsy

My designs are being printed and sold by DTGprintz in Birmingham. They are selling on Etsy and Ebay. Fingers crossed xxxx xxxx.

Links below:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Little-Ergot-Bird-Illustration-Humour-cool-Wildlife-Animal-T-shirt-119-M-F-S-XXL-/130873159105?ssPageName=STRK:MESE:IT

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Spoon-Bill-Bird-Illustration-Humour-cool-Wildlife-Animal-T-shirt-120-M-F-S-XXL-/140938204058?ssPageName=STRK:MESE:IT

Book Cover Commission

The Raid into Angus

Just finished a book cover commission for an American author.  Really enjoyed doing this one and working with the author to produce this piece.

Fame at Last :) well almost ...

Browsing on the internet and came across the latest Fresh Magazine from Wolverhampton Uni. It seems someone liked my image (Page 6) and Toni's which is on Page 7. Also found quite a good site called issuu.com where you can browse lots of illustration portfolios and magazines for free + free to sign up and pretty inspiring.

Duke of Delhi Book Cover

The Duke of Delhi Book Cover

"Douglas, a little boy from England is evacuated to India together with his gran. There he quickly becomes part of a gang. This is no ordinary gang however, it cosists of an elephant, a street girl, two monkeys and a parrot. Join them on their unusual adventures around India, trying to reuinte their elephant friend with his family, whilst meeting tigers, rhinos and other creatures. Good friends are really all they need".

This was a project from an author who wanted a book cover using 3 illustrations which were provided. Unfortunately, I can't take credit for the beautiful Delhi artwork, but I can take credit for bringing it all together with design and additional illustration work. To create a more "Indian" feel and to combine the illustrations I used mehndi as my main inspiration.  This was created using the "frottage" method and Photoshop to finalise the design. There is quite a large bleed area on this image which was quite challenging but I think the end result worked well.

A link to the first draft chapters can be found at http://authonomy.com/books/49541/the-duke-of-delhi/read-book/?chapterid=470518#chapter.  The book is aimed at 5-7 year olds and I'm really looking forward to it being published so that I can see what happens next.

Freelance Work - Snow White

Test Piece

I've been pretty busy the last couple of weeks with commissions. Unfortunately, this project fell through at the last minute so I won't be making my fame on TV - but I did learn a lot and worked with some amazing people. I thought it was safe to publish a couple of them on my blog :)

Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford

My visit to the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford was really interesting and my work is being displayed there until the end of November.  It was really good to see a range of illustrations displayed in the museum and also to hear Isabel Greenberg talk about her illustration work and new graphic novel to be published next year. My images were based on the idea of seed germination and were produced by using charcoal (frottage) and pen.  Images were finalised in Photoshop,

The Fox by D H Lawrence

The Fox Book Cover

I'm really enjoying putting together a portfolio of sample book covers and reading all these books.  This cover consists of acrylic paint, charcoal rubbings, hand rendered type and Photoshop to bring it all together.