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...

Succulents

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...

Merry Xmas

here is an illustration I did recently for the UX mastery website, who I have been doing several illustrations a week for, over the past few months.

Hope you had a good one...

Troublesome cubist painting...

 

Still not quite there but getting closer....
Never done a painting like this before, could maybe have left it a few sessions ago...

Abstract Painting

A recent sort of surreal/abstract painting.

I thought I had lost this blog when I shut down my website (Nov 2018) but it's still here...
Fantastic! This is where I will put all my recent artwork. Enjoy.

Digital Palette Knife Painting

First try at using some of the digital palette knives in Photoshop.

Palette knife painting

Harvey Weinstein

Loving some of the new photoshop brushes.

Have a good downfall Harvey...

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.

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!

Queen Purpuss digital book cover

Here is a book cover I painted over the summer for Author Robert Lawsons digital  fantasy novel - The short reign of Queen Purpuss the 40th. It was fun getting all the cat fur painted in.

St.Lukes Exquisite Palette show

This is about the third or forth time that I have been involved in St.Lukes Exquisite Palette show. I always find it so hard to paint small details with actual paint and brushes after being able to zoom in digitally to do details on the computer. It is always good to keep the hand in. Mainly done in the beautiful Golden Acrylics Louise and David gave me for my birthday years ago.

Robbie Roo cycling along Merri Creek one Tuesday afternoon...

Muddy "Mississippi" Waters

Another in my line of vector portraits of songwriters is one of my all time favourites, Muddy Waters. I have been doing this one over the last few months. I haven't quite worked out what i want in the background yet or what the final colours should be.

This is probably the closest to what i originally wanted to achieve. Love that 70's style shirt...

Here i was fooling around with various patterns & fills in illustrator.

More with the patterns and fills, starting to fall apart as a portrait though.

I kind of like this colourway , but it isnt quite popping enough for me.

Maybe a bit to obvious for a bluesman to be in shades of blue...?

When I had the vector shapes sorted out i quickly painted it as an acrylic on wood portrait. I think it still needs quite a bit of work as it has lost something of the confidence seen in Muddy in the vector. Also it needs a background, maybe some kind of abstract cityscape...