Free painting based on a rapidly made sketch, probably unfinished… but anyway can’t work on it because the paint is … More
Category: work-in-progress
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
Study (traced) for my next oil painting…
…of a truly great artist at work creating yet another of her masterpieces (or should that be mistresspieces?) Tikky (pencil) … More
Still hard at work on this painting… Hitomi Tanaka sunflower princess daughter of the moon
Hair, face and flesh, the most difficult things to render convincingly, plus details, and any noticeable defects, to be dealt … More
Sunflower girl painting proper begun, image roughed in, background spatial issues resolved, long way to go though…
Oil on canvas, 30 x 32″, Sep 1 2019 Happy to have started and made some decisions… Oh how I … More
