Baby Birthday Dragon with present

Baby Birthday Dragon with present 

A little cute baby dragon is happy on its birthday and has been presented with a wrapped present...

The illustration was painted in photoshop to A4 size during autumn 2013. I tend to paint dragons in a green colour so it fitted that the abstract background should complement it, colour-wise. I do feel that there is a slight Japanese feeling to the illustration. 

Baby Birthday Dragon with present

Traveller in landscape with distant Castle

 Traveler in landscape with distant Castle

 

This illustration was painted in Photoshop to A3 size during january 2014. It shows a made up landscape with endless hills and mountains going in to the distance. Mid field there is a Castle, stuck on a cliff edge and near to the viewer is a traveller, with horse, looking onwards in to the scene, contemplating his long journey to the castle.

Traveller in landscape with distant Castle

Romantic Valentine Skeletons in Graveyard

Romantic Valentine Skeletons in Graveyard

 

This illustration was painted in photoshop in Jan 2014. It shows two skeletons in love on st Valentines day night in a graveyard. The male skeleton is presenting his beloved with a bouquet of flowers, for which the female is extremely happy. The design of the skeletons are slightly cartoony to make them more appealing and easier to draw. The colours of the scene are quite muted, but the flowers less so. The diagonal of the males arm with the flowers thrusting in to the scene, is balanced out in the composition with the diagonal of the landscape with church in the opposite direction.

Romantic Valentine Skeletons in Graveyard

Tony Blair in Hell with Devil and holding Weapons of Mass Destruction document

Tony Blair in Hell with Devil and holding Weapons of Mass Destruction document

 

This illustration, painted in photoshop, depicts Tony Blair, former UK Prime Minister in his future residence, Hell. The locations other main resident, the Devil, looks on happily as Mr Blair trots around, clutching his Government's 'Weapons of Mass Destruction' document, which as it now turns out was full of lies and resulted in many wasted deaths of British Service men on a war that had no foundation. The cave in Hell contains other inhabitants, hiding in the shadows and looking on, while the confused Mr Blair, clutching his melting crucifix and hoping he can hide behind his faith, realises he can't talk himself out of this one!

Tony Blair in Hell with Devil and holding Weapons of Mass Destruction document

Dorset Countryside Golden Fields in Summer

Dorset Countryside Golden Fields in Summer

 

This small oil painting was painted in the Autumn of 2013. It shows a view of the Dorset (UK) countryside during a hot, summers day. Golden fields of corn can be seen stretching out in to the distance, working well against the sunny blue sky.

The painting measures 12” x 10” and the oil paint was applied on to a red acrylic base, with the basic elements of the landscape sketched out in brown acrylic paint. It was painted in an afternoon, based on a photograph taken at the time.

Dorset Countryside Golden Fields in Summer

Kids with Haunted Grandfather Clock Ghost

Kids with Haunted Grandfather Clock Ghost

 

This illustration depicts two, young frightened children surprised by a ghost inhabiting an old grandfather clock in an old,spooky house they were wandering around in.

The painting was done in Photoshop in December 2013.

Kids with Haunted Grandfather Clock Ghost

Decorative door in archway set in stone wall surrounded by plants

Decorative door in archway set in stone wall surrounded by plants

 

This distinctive and pretty, wooden door was found at the gardens at Pecorama, in the UK. I was caught not only by the pretty archway, but also the way that the afternoon dappled light was playing across the white door and the stone wall, itself full of interesting forms and colours, as it fell through the foliage growing around the archway. The setting may give the impression of being old but is probably only a few years old.

The painting is done in oils, on a canvas board measuring 10” x 12” , on top of a blank red acrylic base.

Decorative door in archway set in stone wall surrounded by plants at pecorama, devon