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A small snippet of a London based oil painting...

Painting faces exercise Zorn palette 'On the Buses'

These three portraits feature some of the regular cast from the hit comedy TV series 'On the Buses' that ran from 1969 to 1973. From left to right the actors are Reg Varney as Stan Butler , Bob Grant as Jack Harper and Stephen Lewis as Inspector Cyril 'Blakey' Blake.

Painted in oils onto cardboard from a supermarket, each one sized at 12" x 9.5". The colour palette is the limited 'Zorn' one, designed by the Victorian artist, Anders Zorn. The colours are yellow ochre, ivory black, Cadmium red  and titanium white.

Summer 2021.

Steampunk military mobile field gun - WIP stages

Digitally painted in May 2021 this illustration provides a humorous look at a fantastical military machine from 1901, and shows Field marshmallow general P.T. Gallows standing on it.
The photo above shows four stages of the creation of the illustration. In the first panel can be seen a rough, low definition sketch done in Auto sketchbook pro running on a Samsung android tablet with the upper right panel showing this roughly painted in, again on the tablet. The lines help to work out the perspective in the scene. The 3^rd, bottom left panel show work has now progressed to a larger file, again running the same software but this time on a desktop machine which provides far more power than a tablet could offer. The low definition sketch is now redrawn with greater detail. In the final panel, bottom right, can be seen the final illustration.
By following this link this illustration of a steampunk field tank can be seen in detail on this link.

 still life painting 04

A collection of some of my art materials are shown as seen in this still life artwork, painted during June 2021. The dominating item is a metal pot that holds brush cleaner, and has a sealable top. Other items are a number of brushes and tubes of paint, a metal double dipper, some bottles and two wooden cases that are used to store oil paints.
Painted in oils on cardboard, 11.5" x 9.5" from a local supermarket.

Steampunk military mobile field gun - Digital illustration

This military piece of hardware was first developed in 1901. The field gun is s team powered and runs on a caterpillar tracks via via an off-centre very eccentric loopy drive. It is shown with Field marshmallow general P.T. Gallows who died shortly after because his cuff was caught in the rammer while on test.

This illustration was created in Sketchbook pro during May 2021. It can be seen in greater detail on this link.