Girl in a balloon greeting a happy sun

Girl in a balloon greeting a happy sun

This illustration, of a girl in a balloon greeting a happy sun, was created in early 2013. The artwork shows a stylised illustration of a happy girl with a woolly hat piloting a pink balloon from the basket mounted underneath. She is waving at a happy, smiling sun that is emitting rays of light.

The blue sky helps to make the pinks and yellows bounce out of the painting. It was created in a vector based drawing programme, and output at A3 size. 

Girl in a balloon greeting a happy sun

 

christchurch hengistbury head beach with boats

christchurch hengistbury head beach with boats

This oil painting shows a beach scene at Hengistbury Head, near to Christchurch, Dorset,UK. It is a very hot day in the middle of July and a number of boats can be seen resting on the beach. Hengistbury Head is a wildlife preserve and contains a sliver of land only about 50ft across and sea on either side. Two rows of colourful beach huts run along it, one row facing in to the harbour of Christchurch, the other out to sea. The area is a popular destination for tourists in the area. In the painting the artist wanted to capture the activity in the area and the pretty, colourful beach huts looking towards Christchurch harbour.

The painting is on a canvas sized at 16” x 20” and painted late 2012.

christchurch hengistbury head beach with boats

brown horse by stables

Brown Horse by Stables

This oil painting was painted in December 2012. It features a brown horse eating grass in a field with a collection of stables nearby. It is based on a photograph taken in the previous spring and took about 5 hours to paint, in one sitting, on a bright red ground which can be made out on the edges. For small paintings like this I tend to pick simple subjects which makes the painting easier to do and also creates a clear image for the viewer.
The horse painting is painted on a canvas board sized at 8" x 10".

brown horse by stables oil painting

little magic fairy forest connected on to the internet

little magic fairy forest connected on to the internet

This digital illustration was created during November 2012, and shows a fairy with her small insect friends in a forest. The magic forest has just become wifi connected to the internet, show the residents are now using the latest computer technology to find out about the evil witch on the other side of the forest.
The painting was created at A4 size using photoshop, on a dark brown ground that can just be picked out. The fun part of the painting was thinking about and painting the light coming from the ipad and such devices, and how they react with their users faces.

little magic fairy forest connected on to the internet

Frankenstein creature in storm (vector version)

Frankenstein creature in storm (vector version)

This vector based illustration depicts frankenstein's famous creature out and about in a storm. It is done to A3 size and was completed in November 2012.

frankenstein creature in storm

Single chicken walking around on grass

Single chicken walking around on grass

This painting of a single chicken walking on grass, was painted at the end of 2012. It is painted in oils,on a red acrylic ground, in one six hour sitting. The size of the image is 10” x 8” and is created on a canvas board.
I took a number of photos of chickens during the previous summer, with the aim of creating a fresh painting of the bird. I added more grass in to the background to make the chicken stand out better and give the painting a more organic look, rather than the concrete surface it was walking on in reality.

Single chicken walking around on grass

skateboarding happy lion listening to ipod

Vector illustration of Skateboarding lion listening to ipod

This vector based illustration is of a cool and happy young lion enjoying his skateboard. He is listening to his white ipod. It is based on an earlier artwork of the same subject, but created in 3D (lightwave). This new one was created using illustrator, and has a far more graphic look, using blocks of colour controlled in shape by bezier curves. Using this technique makes it easier to produce different versions of the lion on a skateboard.

skateboarding happy lion

skateboarding happy lion