Hope everyone had a merry Christmas

30min Speed paintings

Underwater dragon no2

 Underwater dragon no1

Ninja

Daily spitpaint

Here is today's spitpaint. I chose the masquerade theme and thought it would be fun to do some fan art with that theme. So here it is :)  

30min Speed painting - Three headed Ogre

Another  30min daily spitpaint painting. Having never ever painted a creature before I found this topic a bit challenging. So below was my shameful first attempt. I think I was trying to be too ambitious with trying to design each face and give detail in such a short time that it ended up looking really bad. So about is my second attempt and here I learnt from my mistake and focused on the composition of the character and its surrounding and kept the shapes simple with just enough detail to know what is going on

Speed painting

My speed painting for today for the daily spitpainting group on Facebook. Today I chose to combined two topics they had up today which was fancy dress and sheep on a bike. So here is a man dressed in fancy dress as Shaun the sheep on a bike :) This one was fun

Speed paintings

I recently join a group on Facebook called daily spitpaint, where you have to do a 30min painting based on a various themes of the day. I decided to join as I felt I needed to improve on my concept and speed painting skills. So here are my first weeks attempt at this and I can already feel my painting speed improving. Order starting from the more recent to my very first attempt.

Umbrellas and chain lightning

Hidden treasure

 That thing in the fridge

Statue of mushrooms

 Near future pickup truck

 Day 1 - Mark of the wolf

Snowy forest

It's been a bit chilly today, so thought I would paint a snowy scene.

Tribal woodsman

A painting I did this morning. I was playing around with  few new brushes I made and trying out a different approach to painting. It was good fun and it might have given me a few ideas for future paintings :)

Artist Study

Decided to do an artist study as I have not done one in awhile and I really like Brittney Lee's work. Her paintings are so colourful and happy so I really enjoyed painting doing this study as it gave me some inspiration. Below is the original - britsketch.blogspot.co.uk

Concept thumbnail

I realised that a lot of my work is really cute and happy and so I wanted to try something a bit more serious and futuristic. So here is my first thumbnail attempt and I plan on doing more thumbnails like these in the hope that I get better and quicker.

Doggy Doodles

For the last week I have been looking after a friends dogs, so had the urge to do some dog doodles.

Today's doodle

Just another random doodle for today. Trying to work on my use of shapes in terms of character design. I am having fun doing these as there is not pressure to do a good drawing.  

Birthday clown doodle

I started doodling and this is what happened.

Dad at work

I have not posted anything for awhile because I have been so busy with other little projects and life stuff. So I though I would do a quick painting study of my dad whilst at work.

Plein air painting06 - Albert Dock

I have been in Liverpool for 2wks and today I finally had the courage to go out and do some plein air painting in public (Albert dock is a very busy place) I had some lovely comment from people which was great. With this painting I tried a different technique. I started off with a red undertone and worked wet on wet in oil from there, building up the layers. It was a challenging subject to paint as I had to be more precise in my perspective unlike painting trees and fields, but I can't wait to do my next one :)