and finally for today

this is the very beginning of piece again based on the st anthony story. this is actually going to be more like the piece i originally intended the first time but which i decided against once i saw the canvas. this is on a board and while the other one is now simply called Anthony of Egypt, this one will be the actual temptation represented. it will take time but i have a definite plan. actually this board has a twin which i havent photographed at all yet (and this picture is obviously a partial view) but i'll get to that in the next few days. the pile of paintings is due a sort anyway and i've got a bit of framing to do.

peas

and here's some more

Just because i couldnt upload them in the last post for some reason. these are mostly jokey pieces but darkly and seriously so. they all need a few well selected areas of colour to complement the pure lines that are there right now. these are nice pieces to work on when the weather turns foul as it has this past week. as soon as the sun comes back i'll be out throwing paint again although i definitly think that this technique, which i have been working out on and off for about a year now is really going somewhere now and by the autumn i will probably have produced more pieces of quality in this style that the more traditional paintings which take forever to finish. of course the paintings are generaly a lot bigger... but we'll see how these ones grow too.

New Wave

These are some half finished and almost finished experimental collage type print thingys based on magazine photos of celebrities, advertising and fashion photos and such things. these pictures are a bit small i realise now, but i'll post better ones to my website when they're finished.

Stop. if you like

i didnt have much black because i'd used most of my small tube on these. they're a joke. hardyharhar you might remark when you first see them. they need a few more coats of paint to be finished but they wont really look different. a bit better just.

Wing

When my dearest darling girlfriend saw the wing in the bottom left of icarus she requested a painting of just the wing on a black background. now i'm not a big fan of using black in general and i only had a little bit in any case so the background ended up being a most pleasing layering of lots of colour to create what first seems black but is, i can assure you not. i really like this painting and unlike icarus which i've been working on since january, it only took three or four afternoons to complete. throwing paint in the sunshine again. wonderful

Icarus

So anyway, this is what it looks like now. i'm still working on the leg underneath but, since i'm not working very hard at it, i have no idea when it will be finished. thats the leisure i suffer.

Icarus

So anyway, this is what it looks like now. i'm still working on the leg underneath but, since i'm not working very hard at it, i have no idea when it will be finished. thats the leisure i suffer.

Where have I been??

I've been here. I've been working.
Now lets see... I've pretty much finished the icarus painting... maybe i'll put up a few of the older photos of it that arent up here first.



Ok, so these are in no particular order but as you can see... the legs were the hard part