Brandy Glass and Mobile Phone

Sitting in a coffee shop late one afternoon, satisfied that the days work was done, enjoying a brandy and sketching on a scrap piece of paper with a ball point pen. With some people, they have their memory jilted by the sound of music or even the smell of food, but with me, it is the visual objects that make me remember things. This image was found today and reminded me of that afternoon in the coffee shop, at least 3 years ago. The recollection of that day was so strong that it might as well have just happened.

Indian ink Fontes

On one of my morning walks I took along with me some Indian ink, dip pen and a pad of drawing paper. Went to the source of the river Liz, and saw this crazy old fig tree. It had not started to get the spring leaves and it looked ghostly silhouetted against the background vegetation. Temptation gave way to action and the pen was dipped into the ink and dragged over the page. And so flew a couple of hours.

Bird05a

This a deviation from the traditional Off-Hand Flourishing: it has a cast shadow as well as a small slash of colour.

Bird04

Off Hand flourishing was an art done by calligraphy artistes, with the sole intent of showing off their skills. It is an art that is seldom used today, and in some esoteric circles even frowned upon. This drawing was done originally by hand with a dip pen and black ink. What I have done: is redo the image with a drawing tablet and digital pen, and the use of Abobe Illustrator. So the original is a layered vector file.These images would look great on a set of mugs or dinner plates.

Bird03

Bird02

Ash

This is a small portrait painting of my one son Ashley. 20*25cm - 2011

The Village.

This is an oil painting done on Canvas 50*61cm. Unfortunately it is not totally original work as the canvas already had a black & white drawing printed on it. But the canvas came with a promotional pack of oil tubes at a fantastic mark down price. Too good to be missed. Was embarrassed to show a painting that was not 100% mine so it has been in the garage since 2008.

Abstract expressionism

Another old painting found in the garage. However, I remember having fun doing this with Winsor & Newton oil bars.

Scapbook prototype

Found this old painting in the garage, and it reminded me of what certain people are like. A client approached me and wanted a very large canvas painted with photos of her family stuck all over the canvas. Called Scrap booking. This was one of many small prototypes that I thought fitted her description, but she never came to have a look at the prototypes. This painting is 20X25cm, and was painted with artist quality paints, on a piece of masonite covered with canvas.