Painting

Painting process, portrait of the Cosmic Goddess

Acrylic Painting: A 1980’s Singer

The majority of my paintings and drawings come from my imagination. Sometimes I look in the mirror for structure to see where bones are supposed to be, etc. and once in awhile make a painting of a ‘real’ person. In August, I painted this portrait of a singer who is…

Tame the beast, there is no need for violence!

Sometimes artists create something spontaneously, sometimes from imagination…

Sketch to Painting: Mother and Child

Sometimes an artwork is created based on an old idea. Sometimes an idea waits for the right time. This summer looking through some older sketches of ideas of paintings that were waiting to be made, this painting came to being.

Ode to Picasso

As much as I have always admired Pablo Picasso throughout my life, often my eye was drawn to and I’ve focused on other artists. Recently having rediscovered some books with his works and of course looking at a lot of his work online as well felt inspired to make a colourful portrait of him. Plus I…

Assigning titles to artworks

An unexpected art series: Portraits

Making art for me is usually done in a series. Sometimes a break from the series is needed or…

Extinct and Endangered Fun with Dodos

Periodically I post items random works. Here is a small painting 30x30 cm acrylic on stretched canvas — even though the topic of the project is quite serious some humour can always be found — thus a gif that resulted from the painting is below — hence we have some…

Feathers: birds of a feather flock together at least in this painting they do

Four Portrait Paintings on Paper

Working with paint on paper and carton sometimes has challenges if it’s too thin but most of the time the way the paint feels with these materials works for me. It allows me to achieve a certain feeling, think with any materials that you frequently use you discover more…