All seeing eyes. Imagery for a new board.

Well, time for a new board. And I get to do the graphics!!!!! :)

This is a small detail of what might be called the central panel.

Captain Jack and First Mate Jack Hargreaves - the 'Pirate Prince'

Two Dogs for Hump Day (Wednesday in Oz)

Happy Easter

Imagine if there were no Christ and no Christian Church, how many amazing works of art would never have been made, how many Cathedrals would never have been built, how many wars would never have been waged...

Or instead of being Christians we might be Mithritites, studying the path of Mithras and killing bulls at 'Easter'.

Bloody business, being human, regardless of who your God is - and that is usually a quirk of birth.

This is a variation of a small portion large digital work I made a few years ago. 

Happy Easter. 

Hope your God is treating you well.

Rocket Man over Medieval City

More digital work …

The first with minor adjustments:

the second before c and c

c and c is your friend :)

More on The Pulp Fiction Cover

Don't blame me. Blame Pulp Fiction Inc.

Start of a Pulp Fiction Cover: "The Lady Killer Wore Beige."

better to make it big than make it small

Trees

"Two Pines in a Yellow Forest" - digital work 2019

Woman Dressed as Fortune Teller

Well, I went to the fortune teller,

And this is what the woman said:

'You need to make my picture.'

And you know what? Then I did.

Now you know why my career as a rapper stalled in kindergarten.

Digital Sketching - Characters from the Nutcracker

Couple of digital works from the Nutcracker.

Pinocchio Variations

Apparently Pinocchio is a Fictional Character

Not sure if anyone told him.

Ball with dog - variations

BALL WITH DOG

These might look the same but they have totally different jumping off points. I was blindfolded for both jumps - it was very frustrating. Not only did I not know where I was going to land, I kept sharpening my finger in the pencil sharpener rather than the pencil. 

Luckily I have  HB index finger.

I kid you not :)

Hope everyone is well and just having better than fun and opening their eyes when they sharpen their pencils..

Thank you for looking.

Ah it's been so long I had to read the destructions!

Some beefcake - not my thing really, but I need to leave him here...

Couple of Paintings in Progress

Just a few acrylics I started during the week.

One based on my digital homage to The Handmaidens.

The other homages myself ;) As well as Ball, Balthus and Bellmer - not to mention Rego.

*The Burnt out car is a painting by my studio partner.

Hugo Ball in Time Tunnel

Just another play with Hugo.

Happy Easter 2018!

Happy Easter to all and Sundry :) I hope everyone is well and making wonderful art!

Here's a few details of my homage to Fra Angelico's (d.1455) work 'The Crucifixion' (1420), to help celebrate Easter.

Fra Angelico was one of the first artists to use linear perspective, but while I was studying his work I found his spatial constructions fairly compressed - so when I made this work I worked with a series of images constructed like collages to try and achieve that same compression.

This work is one of the works presently on the wall at the Hugo Ball show - at Maitland Regional Art Gallery, NSW Australia.

There's more about the show here at  https://www.mrhugoball.com/ 

Thank you for looking.

Talk myself up time :)

Hey, is this thing on? 

If you happen to be in Oz at the moment I'd like to invite you to my show at Maitland Regional Art Gallery. It's a show featuring the annunciator of the Dada movement - Hugo Ball. 

I hope everyone is well and all your parts of the planet are singing.

I include some media stuff to talk myself up :)

The Helmet Bird from The Garden of Earthly Delights - after Hieronymus Bosch

I'm having a show at Maitland Regional Art Gallery (NSW, Australia)  soon. Opens Feb 3rd 2018 and goes to April 29th. It's a show of digital homages to famous and less famous painters. This is the Helmeted Bird out of one of Bosch's works - The Garden of Earthly Delights. He appears in my homage to another work by Bosch - Removing the Stone of Madness. 

Of course I'd love it if you came to the show :)

MRAG website is here.

cheers from Oz!

Digital Variations on  a Gladiator

Couple of digital works. This be Famous New Zealand Explorer Sir Frederick Newton, BSC and his platoon at the D-Day Landings.

If you've never heard of him it's because he was shy...

Out with the Old in with the Old

Out with the Old, in with the New

There's something Oedipal about a New Year.

I hope yours has been terrific and the New One is even more terrificker.

Go on, tell me 'terrificker' isn't a word. I dare you.

PS: Who said the guy's in shining armour are the good guys...