A park scene with a giant head building - digital illustration

It was common in an alt Victorian steampunk world to have various public buildings built around giant heads. These would often be seen in places frequented by families on a day out, such as parks or town centres. The heads were not fully operational, but used for simple data processing. Often small viewing areas were built on top of the head, with access through it for passage to viewing platform. It's unknown how much of a body was attached to the heads in the ground.

Family Fishing at Eling Tide Mill Hampshire - oil painting

Family Fishing at Eling Tide Mill Hampshire - oil painting

Family Fishing at Eling Tide Mill Hampshire - oil painting

The subject of a scene is Eling Wharf, Totton, on the outskirts of Southampton, Hampshire. The area was traditionally an industrial area, mainly in timber, and used the local river Test for transportation as well as a rail connection. In modern times the area is now a tourist destination, and has a marina and Eling Tide Mill, one of the oldest working mills in the UK is in operation and open to the public. Pictured are a father with his children doing some fishing, and it appears that a crab has been caught in the net during this pleasant, sunny day.

The painting is done in oils on mounting board, sized at 20” x 28”, and was completed during April 2018.

This painting can be seen in more detail here.

Family Fishing at Eling Tide Mill Hampshire - WIP oil painting stages

Family Fishing at Eling Tide Mill Hampshire - WIP oil painting stages

Family Fishing at Eling Tide Mill Hampshire - stages of oil painting

This oil painting was completed during April 2018. It is painted on mounting board, sized at 20” x 28”. The board is initially painting with a coat of 'gesso' to prime the surface and to stop the oil paint from soaking through the paper. Once this is dry an acrylic orange, paint base is applied to act as a base colour for the entire painting. The next stage is to draw up the scene with brown acrylic paint (and in this case) suggest tonal areas with the use of acrylic white paint, as can be seen in the first panel above. Once all this is done then the painting proper can be undertaken, using oil paint. The second panel shows the under-painting applied using a 'wash' of oil paint. Generally speaking the under-painting is of a darker tone of the final intended colour and tone. The final panel shows the finished painting, with all the correct tones applied. The final layer of oil paint is of a thicker consistency than the under- painting layer, as is applied only when the previous layer is dry.

The final painting can be seen in greater detail on this link.

Working on closeup 43

Working on closeup 43

 A small snippet of a family fishing oil painting...

Summer New Forest Picnic - oil painting

Summer New Forest Picnic - oil painting

Summer New Forest Picnic - oil painting 20" x 28"

During October 2017 this oil painting was created displaying a common and timeless scene that takes place in the new Forest, Hampshire. It is one with a family gathering together for a camping holiday during the summer. In the background can be seen a camping site. Separating the family and the site is a small stream, hidden in the painting.

Oil paint was used, a sheet of mounting board being used as the support. The image is sized at 20” x 28” and took approximately two weeks to create.

The painting can be seen in greater detail on this link.

 

Feeding the Ducks at Southampton Common

Feeding the Ducks at Southampton Common

This painting show the duck pond, known as Cemetery Lake, at Southampton Common, near to the Cemetery. The time of the year is late autumn and a young family can be seen feeding the ducks at the pond during a late afternoon. Seagulls and other birds are are also spotted here.

The painting was created in oils using a 'wet into wet' technique, and is sized at 16”x 20”. It was painted during late 2013.

Feeding the Ducks at Southampton Common

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Cartoon Cow Family on Boating Holiday

Cartoon Cow Family on Boating Holiday

 

Cartoon family made up of cows, sitting in a boat during their holiday. The father cow is enjoying the heat of the day, and a beer. The younger calf’s are amused by the local wildlife with the grumpy teenager is lost in his music. Finally the mother is looking after the baby cow.

Painted in photoshop to A4 size during feb 2014.

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Cartoon Cow Family on Boating Holiday

Southampton People in Park

Southampton People in Park

This Oil painting was done in May 2013, and shows a young family out in a Southampton Park during an Autumn.

The painting is created on canvas board, sized to 16” x 20”. Initially the board is painted a bright, Acrylic red ground. Then the actual painting, done in Oil, is worked on top.

Southampton People in Park

 

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dinosaurs out shopping

Dinosaur shopping trip

Dinosaurs are of constant interest to most people because of their unusual size and looks compared to todays animals. It seems fun therefore to place them into mundane human situations, as here illustrated with a mother and son out on a shopping trip walking along a sidewalk. The boy is a typical boy, dressed in his favorite football colours and kicking a ball, the mother by his side with a basket for shopping, but they are both biped dinosaurs, and a nearby shopkeeper is a triceratops. The shop itself is very ordinary, almost old fashioned but has 'dinosaur' language on the price cards. The dinosaurs themselves are not technically accurate, but are slightly cartoony and friendly, and modifiyed so that they can wear cloths. The composition is nothing special and shows up the details easily. The illustration is painted in photoshop to a size of 10" x 8". Other dinosaur world paintings are here and here. Painted in 2009.

Mother And Son In Garden

MUM AND SON IN GARDEN

This is painted at a size of 4x5 inches,so is smaller than usual. It is painted in a stylized way with a heavy
'wide angle',and the treatment of the faces is particularly stylized. The perspective is very forced and cheated for impact.

from the website...
A mother is seen outside her family home with her son, by the front gate. The digital illustration features stylized characters and elements. The perspective is heavilly distorted to show the figures in relation to their environment.

Painted in 2009