Here is some of my art. I apologies for the photography - getting the colours exactly right, and with no reflections in the picture is a challenge I do not always rise to!
All dimensions are approximate, in inches and represent the 'art area'. Often, the framed size is larger. Nearly all my non - acrylic work could be properly - but unhelpfully - described as "Mixed media", or even multi media. What I have indicated below are the principal, but not necessarily the only, tools used.
None of this art is for sale any longer - it has either gone or is retained.
Just so you can get to know me - two self portraits for the price of one! (But I should point out that the full face dates back a few years!)
"Self portrait - hand" is 8 1/2" * 11", coloured pencil on paper. "Self portrait - face" is 18" * 23",
acrylic on stretched canvas.
Next a couple of barge illustrations. These sailing barges were the workhorses of the London and English east coast during the early part of the 20th century. They carried food into London and garbage and bricks out. The Norfolk barges were also called wherries and could carry a complete haystack!
"Barge at rest" is 14" * 16", ink & graphite on paper. "Barge at sea" is 21" * 16", ink and graphite on paper.
(The blue and sepia tints in these pictures are unintentional photo artifacts, the background is near white in both cases.
This happens with some of the following as well.)
The next two are from a group of three, all are 8 1/2" * 11" acrylic on paper, nicely framed.
" "Smooth" "Iconoo"
- and now for something completely different. "A pear" should alert you to hidden possibilities in the second picture.
""A pear" is 16" * 12", acrylic on paper, simply framed. "Eyeshoe" is 17" * 12", pencils on paper, framed.
- and now back to the more straightforward, at least for now -
"Van Gogh's Three cottages" is 15" * 11", acrylic on paper, "Going home" is 25" * 19", acrylic on foam board.
I should explain that Van Gogh did both a drawing and a painting of these cottages. Even though the scene is clearly the same, there are significant differences, not just in viewpoint - which is little different - but the relationship of the cottages is different. So I have chosen to use the layout per his drawing, but use colour.
"Four quarters" is 19" * 15", acrylic on board. "Boy's faces" is 18" * 15", ink and graphite on paper.
""Who am I" is 13" * 14", pen and graphite on paper, simply framed.
"Middle Earth" is 17" * 11" computer (Corel's Draw) generated, and this is a picture of an output that is plaqued paper.
This is one of the places where, in my view, art and technology cross over. The advantage of doing this in a program like "Draw" is that I can output this in many different sizes, and adjust the degree of detail according to the size. So if you wanted a full size print of just Gondor, for example, this would come out with details not available in the full map seen above. Similarly the text would not just be scaled up but would be resized to look sensible on whatever the actual size was. Also the index, grid, tracks of the heroes, etc., can be included or left out to choice. In fact there are a huge number of options here. The disadvantage of the meticulous input required to create this in Draw is time - this represents about 500 hours work spread over several years! (I also made such demanding use of one feature of a well known CAD program (by a major player in that field) that it succumbed under the strain - but they were nice about it and reverted to an earlier, less capable method in an update!) That was when I turned to "Draw", which managed the task with ease.
Contact me via the link on the home page for pricing as this very much depends on what tailoring you would like, and is far too complex to get into here. However to give you an idea the bottom end is a simple 8.5" * 11" coloured print of your choice of scene for $25 - from there it can go up quite a lot - a 40" * 40" would be around $125 depending on the amount of set up I had to do !
