Multi-tasking!

February 28th, 2010 by Neil

Multitasking!

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.

Maintenance

February 21st, 2010 by Neil

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.

Satellite 3 Logo

February 21st, 2010 by Neil

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

Satellite 3 logo

Equinoxe – WIP #4

February 16th, 2010 by Neil

Spot the sneaky canvas flip….

equinoxe - WIP #4

Nebula 2 – WIP #1

February 14th, 2010 by Neil

First layer of colours on….

Nebula 2 - WIP #1

New life as a new nebula

February 14th, 2010 by Neil

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….

30/10 Nightwater (really bad photo)

Céleste Boursier-Mougenot

February 4th, 2010 by Neil

Life Drawing Weekend – part two

January 24th, 2010 by Neil

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

Figure Sketch 23/1/10 #4

Figure Sketch 23/1/10 #3

Life Drawing Weekend

January 24th, 2010 by Neil

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 :

Figure Sketch 23/1/10 #2

Figure Sketch 23/1/10 #1

Rest And Be Thankful

January 10th, 2010 by Neil

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.

Rest and Be Thankful

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:

Rest and Be Thankful - square

Hope you like it!