I’m an artist and illustrator and this blog is about my progress with drawing and painting.
Categories and Tags
I have tidied my images into various categories. There are some links below to galleries of my images as well as my most recent posts. There is also a word cloud to the right of the various metadata descriptions I have tagged each post with.
Contact, Comments
I’ve turned off the comments function because there was too much spam, but there is a Contact Form here if you want to contact me directly. I will reply to any messages as promptly as possible.
Recent Posts
- Daily Composition May 23, 2023, three views.These Daily Compositions from May 23 2023 are 3 views that caught my eye all on the same Tuesday evening as I headed home. I painted all three digitally on the computer using Adobe Photoshop with a Wacom Cintiq graphics tablet. I’m not usually quick enough with the camera to capture everything I see that… Read more: Daily Composition May 23, 2023, three views.
- Video – Painting of man swimming underwater, May 2019This painting of a man swimming underwater is a Daily Composition sketch from May 30, 2019. It’s set in the pool in London where I used to swim regularly. He was another regular there who I spoke with often but never caught his name. He was from Liverpool or thereabouts and was a very good… Read more: Video – Painting of man swimming underwater, May 2019
- Video – me painting on iPad, London September 2023This video of an iPad painting in London is from a surprise trip I took there at the end of September 2023. The YouTube link to watch the Procreate video is at the bottom of the page. Rather than being touristy or madly searching for a King Charles 50p (which I actually just forgot to… Read more: Video – me painting on iPad, London September 2023
- Video – colouring a storyboard drawingThis video below is me colouring a storyboard drawing from an old job. Working under job conditions means I stopped drawing when the deadline stopped. Sometimes I like to revisit old drawings like this and tune them up a bit, make them a bit nicer. I used Photoshop on the computer using a Wacom Cintiq… Read more: Video – colouring a storyboard drawing
- Daily Composition painting, Girl on train, January 2016This is an example of a Daily Composition painting, in actual paint, as opposed to a more usual pen or pencil sketch. I used to commute daily to the centre of London and this image had stuck in my mind from the week before. It is of a girl all wrapped up for the January… Read more: Daily Composition painting, Girl on train, January 2016
- London Sunsetposted so can see the digital photo tag