Woman Ceramicist at work in her studio - oil painting

Woman Ceramicist at work in her studio - oil painting

The completed painting of a Ceramicist at work.

A Southampton ceramicist known as Leo Deville is depicted in this painting, produced in May 2019. She is shown working at her studio, surrounded by the tools she often uses during her creating process. As well as many brushes and old jam jars peppering the scene, an animal vertebrae (off a donkey) can be seen. Leo is pictured busy working on one of her stylized clay busts.

The ceramicist says “I create ceramic stylized faces, figures, sculptures and jewellery that can include coloured wires, textiles, beads & paint.” She also paints in acrylics and oils. Her website can be found at https://www.leodeville.co.uk/ .

This oil painting is sized at 33x 23.5”, and is painted on treated acid free mounting board.

The portrait can be viewed in greater detail hereXXX.

Boy With Airplane On Hilltop - WIP stages

Boy With Airplane On Hilltop - WIP stages

digital painting steps - 'Boy with Airplane on Hilltop'

During July 2018 this digital stylized illustration was created. Depicted is a kid on a hill top wanting to be a pilot, and dons wings made of pieces of cardboard. Behind him a large jet aircraft swoops past.
The panel above shows three stages in the artworks creation. In the first can be seen the rough drawing done on an android tablet. The drawing does start up as very much a scribble, but gets refined as as time goes by. This is the finest it needs to be for my purposes. In the second panel the drawing is used as a guide while the picture is roughly painted and to find a pleasant set of colours and tones, but is still done on the handheld tablet and a small size. The last picture shows the completed picture. In this, the image file has been taken and exported to a w10 computer, running the same software but with a lot more power. In addition the picture has been scaled up so that when it is painted it will be painted with fine details and print well at a larger resolution.
The finished artwork can be seen in full detail here.