Llanddwyn Island

Watercolour painting of Llanddwyn Island, Anglesey. Available as a print HERE.

Guillermo Del Toro tribute show

Here's my piece for the Guillermo Del Toro tribute show "In Service of Monsters" at Gallery 1988. Despite there being plenty to choose from I couldn't resist painting Hellboy. My piece is based on the Troll Market scene from Hellboy 2. It's watercolour and 297 x 420mm (approx). Available to buy online (or in person) from the gallery from this evening (September 11th). The show runs until October 3rd at Gallery 1988 (West), 7308 Melrose Avenue, Los Angeles.

Californian House painting

Another recent painting. This time it's a case study-style/California Modern house loosely based on the Eames House. I've included the original sketch along with some process shots. I tried to keep the pencil drawing as faint and as simple as possible so I could make most of the decisions while painting. Sometimes this works other times it doesn't!

It's available as a print HERE.

Moss, Rocks, Trees, Snow

Another watercolour painting. I wanted to leave a lot of the white of the page visible on this one so what's better to paint than snow?

Stag Painting

Here's a stag watercolour painting I did earlier this week along with some process shots and the original sketchbook page that inspired it. I wanted to draw an animal and I enjoy drawing trees so a stag seemed like the obvious choice as it appears to be a bit of both.

The Hiber-Nation Opens

Our exhibition, The Hiber-Nation, opened at the Wales Millennium Centre last Thursday (December 5th) and runs until January 5th 2014. Thank you to everyone who came along, to Gulp for playing (brilliantly!) at the launch and to the WMC for making it all possible. Here's a selection of photos of what to expect if you're making your way to Cardiff to see it (including one of Louise/Felt Mistress with the incredible 9ft huggable Hugger that she made!). All work is for sale. If interested please email me for a price list (details in my profile). Thank you!

Striders keep on stridin'

New painting for our Hiber-Nation exhibition (see previous post) - "Striders Striding". Watercolour 40x50cm. Exhibition starts at the Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff on the 5th December at 6 o'clock with a special launch night. Everyone welcome!

Quadrophenia - the painted version

As I mentioned in the previous post my piece for the Movie Show exhibition had to be an original piece of artwork produced traditionally without the aid of a computer. Here it is. Watercolours and ink. I enjoyed doing this a lot. I can't remember the last time I produced a finished piece without the aid of Photoshop! You can see everyone else's contribution on the blog. The show opens June 27 at the Galerie Daniel Maghen, Paris.

MDF 3D

A couple of close-ups of the 3D (well, sorta) piece I've done for Inky Goodness in Birmingham's Vaad Gallery. The show starts on Friday night and I'll be at the gallery all day on Saturday (along with the lovely Felt Mistress) if anyone wants to pop by and say hello. I'll post some more pics once the exhibition is up.

Shaped Painting

First of my shaped painting for September's Inky Goodness show. This is on MDF which was cut to shape and then primed and painted on to. Louise is currently working on some 3D pieces to go with them. More soon.

Paris Painting

A painting for my sister's birthday. She wanted something Parisian with the Eiffel tower in it somewhere. Brief fulfilled! 60cm x 80cm.

Creepy Tree-ptych

Here's a "tree-ptych" (see what I did there?) featuring two creepy trees and a tree creature. Once again, acrylics and POSCA.

Blue Tree Canvas

More messing around with POSCAs, acrylics and canvases. I seem to either draw girls with long complicated hair or stylised trees. I should draw a complicated hair girl/tree combo. Oh, wait a minute, I have.

Sunday Painting

After warming up (literally and figuratively!) on Saturday I felt like doing another painting. Here's the result. (60cm x 80cm) POSCAs and acrylics.