sailing to disaster!

life drawing

Finally found time to upload some life drawing from this year!

experimenting with colour pencils!

sketching sketching

Year of the Snake

Hmm we're already in the year of the horse, but better late than never!

Starwars Challenge

So...I've not posted in a while!

Lots of things have happened in the last 9 months (no not that!) and in amongst all the change going on around me I've found it very difficult to do any personal work. However, things have settled down and besides feeling a little burnt out, things are better than ever. Here's a quick work in progress painting for the Star Wars challenge we've been doing at work.

I'll keep making tweaks to this in the weeks to come. 

If you're still here, thanks for sticking around :)

update: you can see the finished piece here

Pre-bed doodles

zzzzzz

Saturday painting

Last saturday's life painting. 

Alla prima, roughly 4 hours.

Japanana

So I visited Japan recently and spent a few days as a resident artist at Kayamori house and farm project in the mountains of Nara.

The weather wasnt great, heavy rain for the most part, so what was intended as a plein air visit was reduced to a more house-bound approach.

A charming building, with lots of character (and I became convinced that there were ghosts after my host, Aiko, showed me a number of books by the fantastic Shigeru Mizuki). In the 3 days I got a few paintings done, but another visit is definitely on the cards! 

Thanks to Jamie and Aiko for being such great hosts!

 A sheltered corner of Kayamori house's garden, where I hid from the rain and got eaten by mosquitoes

And then some random sketches done before bed!

 

 And this is the linework for my Yokai pinups project, starting with the Shirime!