Diptych

Here's the partner piece to Rich pickings.

Chatter. Mixed media 95 x 70cm

The two pieces together

Close-up

In the studio

Rich pickings

  Second on today's postathon is this bad boy, finished after the Bruce Wayne painting as a bit of a test to see if I could do another painting which was bit more like the way I draw i.e no plans and just see what happens. It was a lot of fun and I'm pretty happy with it, its part of a diptych but I haven't got round to photographing the other piece, so that will have to wait for another day.

Bruce Wayne says he heard it all falling apart.

I finished this painting a while back but as usual its taken me ages to get round to posting it here. After finishing the owl painting which had lots of repetitive pattern and tight bits of painting I felt the need to do something a bit looser, for fun and also for the benifit of my wrist as it turns out repetive painting causes repetitive stress injuries, funny that. This piece was a lot of fun and has definately influenced how I now approach paintings. Hope you like....

4 feet x 4 feet, mixed media on board

A few detail shots

This piece was included in our third year exhibition 49

agressively orange

Check out my box

The brief for this project was to make two identical 8x5x1 inch boxes, one of which will be kept and displayed in Edinburgh and the other will be sent to Boston USA. I was a bit stumped and unenthusiastic to begin with, never before having the urge to construct a box but once I got started it turned out to be fun.  Here's the result.........

8x5x1 inch, emulsion and pen

emulsion, pen and real soldiers

Owl has friends

     Well I had good intentions of keeping up with my blog a lot more after my last postathon but that never happened, lots of time making the work not so much documenting it but hey.
    I just wasn't sure that the owl painting was finished so I added some extra panels to extend it, here's the finished result...

and here's a few detail shots.....

perhaps one of the fiddliest bits of painting I have ever done

 And in case you were wondering....yes the honeycomb took a long long time and yes it was very tedious in parts.

Glue