Oil on linen canvas painted over two dreadful earlier starts… hopefully, this time, I can make something of this study … More
Category: work-in-progress
Portrait study
Of my collector and art curator, Ms X, (still very much a work in progress,) oil on linen canvas, 24 … More
Need a few days off from this piece… need to come back to it with refreshed eyes… so, still a work-in-progress
Seated woman in blue, posing
Free painting based on a rapidly made sketch, probably unfinished… but anyway can’t work on it because the paint is … More
I have no idea [WIP] forms in space?
Something taking shape… Just making marks with charcoal and erasing them with a feather and seeing what happens… Fixed with … More
Common Irish ash [update]
Update: more work done on this including work en plein air until the wind decided against it! Additional media used: … More
View of St. Catherine’s church, Fenagh, with a stormy sky, WIP
This is merely an underpainting, an initial covering of the support which is, in this particular case, white Arches oil … More
Dazzling December sunlight, neglected field, Ireland [WIP]
In the Paintorealist style, oil on canvas, 32 x 28″, Dec 3 2019
The oldest profession (WIP)
Coloured pencils and turpentine on A3 paper, subsequently pixellated and colours simplified… Oct 24 2019 Done after an image on … More
Let the painting begin! [WIP] (A portrait of the artist Hitomi Tanaka)
N.B. This is merely a preliminary underpainting to the oil painting proper, i.e., it is NOT the finished work. Pen … More