Neil's Sketchblog

New astronomy pic Oxygene taking shape on the drawing board, and slightly experimental thing provisionally titled Weather Storm drying at a jaunty angle on the floor beneath the easel.

I’ve noticed the blog was squishing images above a certain size – most notably those linked from flickr. After much random tinkering around with settings this appears to be fixed.

Logo design for Satellite 3, an SF convention running in Glasgow in 2012. I did the previous two, so this continues the theme.

Spot the sneaky canvas flip….

First layer of colours on….

Some might recognise this as Nightwater - an attempted and failed abscape trying to capture the way light seems to eminate from water at night. Well I was never happy with it as that, so now it’s being reborn as a nebula painting. A few dozen layers of colour should do the trick….

A couple more sketches from the life drawing weekend. A little less abstract these ones :

Had a weekend life drawing at Maryhill Art School. So much stuff from two days, I’ll put a few favourite sketches up here I think.

First, a couple of quite abstract ones I liked :

Project RBT is finished! Well, I’d like to think that Rest and Be Thankful is a subject I’ll come back to a good few times since it’s a place so special to me, but my first proper attempt at painting it is done, and I’m fairly happy. It certainly beats my previous lanscapes I think so that’s a win.

For comparison, this is the photo I worked from mostly. I used others for specific reference points and did my usual throwing the colours out the window, but this was the compositional inspiration:

Hope you like it!