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Painting #1 – Cool Blue Water / Hell Oh
I’ve not painted in a long time – my previous work quite often included symbols (I used to doodle Paul Klee style characters on old computer paper), and my degree work used a lot of text, so this isn’t a massive surprise. I did a lot of work in fountain inks, Quink etc using them…
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Life Drawing #2
Sequels are so disappointing, aren’t they? Glad to say my life drawing was less Jaws 3D and didn’t jump the shark. Still working on the more measured lines – working for the first time with dip pen and ink, with mixed results (ink blots!) but then went mad with Posca paint pens, pastels and acrylic…
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Digital, don’t ever fade away
Of course I never really ‘stopped’ – I’ve been creating digital collages, photographs, web designs, doodles and the odd bit of painting since I left art school. A good example is the cover art I create for Radio Clash podcast every few weeks. Sometimes it’s a photo, sometimes it’s found art or riffing off an…
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I Used To Be An Artist
I used to do sketchbooks back in my foundation and degree days, and then after than kept about 6-7 scrapbooks which might feature here at some point. So my latest book is a mashup of the two – the Skratchbook, it’s a mix of drawing, painting and collage. Here’s a page that has a personal…
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First life drawing in 26 years!
I stopped life drawing during my art degree around 25-27 years ago. I felt that digital work would be more important in the future and that ‘dead tree’ media would disappear. How wrong was I… A long way to go, but I found at the end I got into the swing and was getting some…