Van Gogh style at Merri Creek

Another trip to Merri Creek with the ipad.
Channeling Vincent this time. A time consuming way to paint, but fun. This view is almost the exact reverse of the previous image. Its looking down the hill, rather than up it.

Merri Creek Spring 2019 - Procreate on ipad

Getting the hang of some new Procreate brushes on the ipad...

Digital pastel test in photoshop

Just playing around in photoshop after watching a Karen Margulis pastel demo on YouTube...

Gippsland Highway

Don't think one is quite finished yet...

Digital Bush painting

All done in photoshop... here is a detail of the bottom left.

Aussie tree - Digital paint

 

Doing lots of Australian landscape painting using digital techniques...

A beach in Tassie

Trying out more of the great new Brushes in Photoshop...This was based on a lovely little beach near The Bay of Fires which we visited in Tasmania a while ago.

Photoshop Sunset Painting

Wire Skies 2

Here is a painting of a local telephone pole from the earlier drawing "Wire Sky 1" I sold it at an exhibition I had late last year.

Painty McCubbin style

I was trying to get the sort of effect of the bush that Fred McCubbin did with thick oil paint... but digitally. Needs more work but I found it interesting. Be good to see if this could be done much bigger.

Bush Tucker time

Bush Tucker time

Hey, I'm walkin here!

Been doing a few Australian Animation backgrounds again....

Sharpie River

Here is a fun little landscape painting/drawing, not sure which, as it was painted in acrylic and then drawn with a sharpie... It was quick and fun and I might have to do some more in a similar vein.

I have since been told it is not a river but a yellow road... oh yeah, maybe it is!

Layered Landscape

Here is another in the layered landscape theme. I was trying to get it as bright and saturated as possible but still easy to read...

Big Roo Road

Here are a couple of sneak peeks at what may be the biggest, most detailed drawing i have done for years. I worked on it on weekends over summer.

The big Roo Road is all about details, everything is in focus like a pattern and it is also a bit narrative with a single character moving through the landscape. I haven't quite finished it but here are some details...

Another simple vector bush background

Spending some spare time coming up with new and easier ways to make simple, bold bush landscapes in illustrator... Oh and designing more roo characters of course.

Feb 2013

Yeah, a long time between posts, but I have been doing a fair bit of artwork including some paintings that i will post when they are finished.

Here are a few odds and ends from over the summer.

I dunno, some kind of vector/limited palette test...

Oh yeah, this was used to help sell gingerbread to to little prep kids...

This one is part of something else, still in progress.

Reflecto lettuce alien, still not finished but a fun way to make pictures. Did I show this already?

Something from a series I am working on currently in a few different formats.

Allright, that's enough for today but I have a bunch more that i will put up over the next little bit.

Some more landscapes/animation backgrounds

A few more of these bush layouts I made in early September ...

Some new landscapes

Sorry, it has been a while between posts.

I have been busy doing all different things but I thought I had better put some online.

Here are some quick animation layouts/background done in August.

More or less realistic or cartoony, but all done quite quickly in photoshop or painter.

More backgrounds

Here are a few more of my recent backgrounds of interiors and bush scenes.



These two interiors have a similar colour palette and technique, which is quite different from my other backgrounds.



This last bushscape is pretty dense with grass and leaf texture.
I am getting a lot of good feedback on the tough little koala character.