What I have on this week

This week’s schedule has been full up for some time. Monday: Oil painting – boat. Short tutorial session in the afternoon. Tuesday: Digitial painting/design, for poster. Creating digital assets from scratch. Evening: digital design for a Valentine’s present. Wednesday: Vector

Ely Cathedral

One of my commissions this year was a gift for a couple who live in Ely, and the Cathedral is the obvious choice. For those who don’t know, it’s an ancient gothic hulk that has been in danger of sinking

Portrait of A. – forming the features

I had a day to myself when everything else was drying, and I put the Portrait of A back onto the easel. I’d already done the hair and jacket, but not completed them – they were on the canvas to

All play and no work

It seems that everyone liked the things I made. Quotes like ‘awesome’ and ‘people have insisted I tell you how good it is’ came in over the Christmas period. January has a few things in, but I’ve been taking these

Gold Leaf Batman

Partly in preparation for a terrifyingly complex art work I have in mind, I made a gold leaf Batman. This was a gift, so it was not published until now, but I executed it a couple of months ago. I

Portrait of A. – background

The gridded portrait was quick enough that I could get started on the background in the same day as I began the tonal sketch. I decided to go with the same lighting as in the train, and to lie about

Shell Gold Batman

Having recently finished my shell gold, I wanted to do a couple of experiments with it. Firstly, I had to know how it painted. Second, I wanted to run a multimeter over the gold to find out just how grinding