Sketching
Reading Time: < 1 minuteJust a quick addition to the post from our weekend in Tideswell. While there I did a few pencil sketches inspired by the scenery. This is something I am only just starting to play about with, but here they are.
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Tryptych -Fear, Love, Remorse
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhile I am busy scanning and archiving, I will upload these for the record. Fear, Love, Remorse. Acrylic and Blood on Canvas, 20x20cm each panel. I will leave it at that.
Watercolour Sketches
Reading Time: 2 minutesTypically, after 2 weeks of leave full of rain and general rubbish weather, the sun decided to shine on the last day before I go back to work. I decided to sit on the doorstep and do a bit of painting. These are all quick …
Kippford and Rockcliffe in watercolour
Reading Time: 2 minutesAfter coming back from Scotland I have had a play with some painting based on the scenery there, working from the photos I took. This is the view of the sunset from Rockcliffe over Urr Water. In retrospect I think this was always going to …
Nostalgia of Pastels
Reading Time: 6 minutesI bought this little set of watercolours from The Range which I visted when chasing Freightliners recently, as I was taken in by the interesting and slightly different colours. It’s a bit of a niche set, and certainly not useful as the only set one …
Cotman Watercolour Floral Pocket Set
Reading Time: 2 minutesOn a breif visit to Shipley and Saltaire, plagued sadly by back problems, I was seduced by the art shop again and decided to buy some watercolours. This is something I have played with a little, though not for quite some time, though it is …
Experiments in Scoring
Reading Time: 2 minutesI’ve been working for a while with the amazing BBC Symphony Orchestra Discover from Spitfire Audio in some of my tracks lately. For those of you who have not encountered this, Spitfire are a company who produce deep sampled libraries aimed predominatly at film scoring …
Images from The Underground
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAfter a certain amount of thought, I have decided to cull the Images From The Underground Website. There’s a few reasons for this – to be fair, in the days of social media, the people who I would like to engage with this project do …
Building a Guitar
Reading Time: 5 minutesI have wanted a 12 string electric for a while – a lot of what I do with guitars is drones and textures, so having messed about a bit with a 12 string acoustic for a while I though this might be a fun new …
A somewhat Psychedelic Seascape
Reading Time: < 1 minuteA bit randomly, I have done a large and slightly psychedelic acryslic. It’s been a while since I got paints out so I thought I would post this. Thats it really…
Flyer design for Sheffield Live
Reading Time: 2 minutes…a series of fundraisers from Sheffield Promoter Emily Strange in aid of radio station Sheffield Live 93.2FM.
Working with character art produced by local artist Felicity Hoy I have produced a series of flyers and posters…