newish

oils on canvas...

long time no blog

Finally I have gotten around to posting something, Im so lazy, I can be bothered typing in a password to log into blogger...facebook is a different story tho. So here's some stuff I've made while I was away in the wonderful world of facebook.

and a detail

its about hair and women...

this one is mainly digital, which I dont like so much, I prefer manual painting and drawing, it doesn't feel like work, staring at a computer does. there's some woodgrain layers overlaid instead of the usual textures most people use ....anyhoodles...its called "bad day at the office" that title is temporary.

detail

boxy-but-good version 2.0

here's another pimped up storage box from ikea, this one was a request.

The requestee wanted a light-coloured stain to match the existing house furniture.

bride-fest

more self indulgent showing off with computers v3.0

(the pluses and equals give my blog that special professional looking touch)

There is another page that goes with this double page spread but I'm too lazy to post it because my isp is being especially slow and useless of late (thanks tpg). oh okay I'll post it. this one originally only had the middle gal in the picture the other two I added. oh yeah and there was nothing out the window, the view is fake too. and the middle gal had some work done.

space-lash mascara - now with 30% more UFO technology

oil on board, 20cm x 20cm
an homage (of sorts) to all the ridiculous mascara advertising I've seen.
In a previous post I said I'd post the whole thing, so here it is.

boxy but good

here is a little project I made for my sister-in-law, for her birthday. I took a storage box from Ikea and stained and painted it with her initial and some embellishments on it. this is the "Before" picture.

(albeit I did have to build it, with a little hair-pulling and some hammer-throwing)

this is the "After"

I was thinking about painting the whole thing a solid colour or cover it in some nice patterned paper, but in the end I wanted to keep the nice wood-grain, because otherwise I could have just bought a plastic or MDF box , the wood makes it look more time-honoured or classic (if it weren't for those damned cut-outs).

The whole thing was stained with water-based floor stain, "W" painted with acrylic gold paint, the leafy scrolls with oil paints, then the whole thing varnished with water based glue/varnishy stuff. Would have been good if the backs of the drawers had no finger-hole-style-cutouts I would have turned 'em round and attached some better looking handles. But unfortunately there is cut-outs on both ends. I may have to get one for myself, very useful drawers for craft/scraps and other crap.

underwater love

oils on wood

a lady or fish-lady (however you interpret it) swimming in some brown looking water, I was going to stain the wood blue but that would ruin the lovely brown piece of wood, so I stained it a darker brown, this could be the bog lady part 2.

Pond-scum

this is meant to be a girl going for a dip in one of those gross ponds that's teeming with that stuff that grows in ponds, water lilies or algae, or something, OK so its not a specific plant but you get the picture. You can see around her chestal area there is some water making an appearance. People have commented that it looks like a field of leafy vegetation. OK so its whatever you want it to be.

spare time posting

oil on board
here's another recent addition to my big-head-sci-fi-phase. this is a cropped section of the work, the rest is a little unfinished so perhaps a later post will reveal the remains.

new new stuff

a diptych, untitled as yet, oils on board, 28 cm's x 18 cm's

They've been composed in such a way that they can also be "stand alone", one doesn't depend on the other, one can still tell a story on its own but together the story is magnified.