Kids & Other Portraits, plus a Dream Home...

Bird Watching: Looking for Bird (Qua'Quacks) With Grompa.

Bird Watching

 Robert Smith for Babies

 The Sacrifice 3

 The Sacrifice 2

 The sacrifice 1: Hanging in the Balance

 The porridge Eaters

The Baby

 Elie Weisel

Steve Kilby, The Church (band)

In Every Dream Home

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3) 

three drawings done on 'google chat' whilst taklking to the person in the middle portrait, and when I had no drawing materials handy - 1) Self-portrait, 2) portrait of someone I was chatting too', 3) 'two birds with one stone'. Maybe it's realy all one big portrait or a triptych - part of the same story anyway! 

Two little birds - drawings and studies

  Two little birds. Pen on 5cmx7cm paper. I put a small bird flying off into the left top corner of the first drawing and I called it 'Bird on a string'.

 Not sure how it works, probably should have left the bird out and still called it that, and it it would have worked just as well with the second drawing. It looks a bit cluttered now.

 

The second drawing is called 'kol-ok, kol-ok' which translates as 'captured bird'.

Henry David Thoreau

 

Completed portrait of Henry David Thoreau

WIP: getting there - Portrait of Henry David Thoreau.

 

This is a study and drawings made for what will become a portrait of Henry David Thoreau.

Acrylic on A4 and pen on A3 paper

The Crocodile Under the Stairs - C.U.T.S series

A few different ideas for various paintings in this one with  a few tentaive working titles:

Acts of Cunning, Abuse and Treachery. 

Narcissistic Tendencies.

Mummy, Mummy, Money.

 Cunning on legs - Abuse & Male Loathing

Cunning on Legs - Death Trap

 The Silencer. 

Ideas for two paintings -  'Your House is on Fire...' and 'Fiddling While Rome Burns'. 

This drawing, will I think, eventually be turned into two paintings - split down the middle. The bird will I think be a kookaburra, laughing and carrying two children away from the burning house while the woman fiddles and her lover sits under a tree and the children's father is the tree's shadow... or buried under it...or its roots... or all the above...

 I love You / Blinded by the love. 

The one (above) is a cose up of the original (below) - Maybe less is more. Approx 5cmx7cm, acrylic on paper.

The Mask I: The Girl That Cried Wolf

The Mask II: Croc Tears and Tats - that's what this little girl is made of.

~ close up

The Crooked Horizon (with croc, tat, narcissus).

(Image forms and symbols - Skeleton, blue and brown. Fishnet tights, Narcissis flower, crocodile tears, see-through clothing, eye reflection of itself, mask, yellow (straw) hair, red tattoo with fingers crossed.... and 2 little ning-a-nings looking on.)

Ordinary lives, ordinary things - the stuff of life - the cycles, the interconectedness of life on this planet, is the philosophy behind what I try to recreate in my artwork; be they drawings, paintings or other works. 

In Crocodile Under The Stairs (C.U.T.S) the ordinary lives, ordinary things - the stuff of life, the cycles - have been disrupted, fractured, distorted, broken and destroyed. 

Enjoy.

Little Yellow Bird (Beach baby series)

Beach Baby series - 'Little Yellow Bird 2'. August Approx 2016, 20cm x20cm 

A little Bird landed then flew away again.

First in the Beach Baby series - 'Little yellow Bird'. June-July 2016, Approx 35cmx45cm
Find the bird in the sky and the footprints in the sand. Make your own story.

Flower Garden by the Sea

   A colour study I decided was a completed painting. 

   Flower Garden by the Sea, Acrylic on A3 paper

Muddy Waters 1 and 2

The murky waters of flooding nearby. These were imagined images in as much as I didn't use a particular photo i took of the floods (June 2016); it was more a melding of lots of images in my head. I just wanted to get the feel of brown waters flowing through the landscape. It is the first in what will be a series.

'Muddy Waters', acrylic on canvas, 30cm x 30cm

Angry baby love and Beach Babies.

 A series of sketches/drawings of angry babies and beach babies done on whatever I had handy at the time. Trying to capture cuteness, quirkiness and mostly mock anger in the faces of babies I know.

Pink Landscape

 

Pink Landscape, acrylic on canvas, 40cm x 35cm

The pink landscape. Not sure about this one. I think it's a bit flat and i should have introduced yellows maybe, not just white to the red, as that would have given more depth. Oh well, next time!

Two Little Angels From the Past (2)

Two Little Angels From the Past (this time in black). Trying to give a hint of 'yes we are very cute, but don't mess with me and my bro or just might mess with you...').

Acrylic on canvas
Approx 40x45cm

 

close up

Two little Angels (1)

Two little Angels from the past
Acrylic on A3 paper.

This was done in an hour or so, using my left hand instead of usual right. I do this often when I need to try and loosen up and make my brain work in a different way. It helps in allowing you to see things from a very different perspective; what comes out is usually more clearer, more focused looser.

Lotta Road 2

The latest in my series of Lotta Road. Acrylic on canvas, approx 25cmx40

 A couple of lighter areas to complete and one or two highlights, but otherwise happy. Achieving my goal of loosening up,and just staying focused - and of doing a painting in a day, at last!

The Pink Bunny

The Pink Bunny, March 2016, acrylic on canvas, approx 30cmx45cm 

Testing out textures, especially since it was painted over a previous painting with textures already there. Tried to incorporate this into the artwork and add more; and give Pink Bunny just a little bit of attitude as well.


'I'm  hanging up my dancing shoes and coming for some tea. I'm walking from the past to you in my yellow and blue feet. I am Pink Bunny; please don't mess with me'. 

Pink Bunny was a very patient model (even when she/he got a few bits of paint on her/him during the process).
The painting was for an Easter present, so have not been able to post it before now.