“It wanted souls, and I brought it you.” the previous paintings featuring the four cenobites went to the home of a collector in the UK. when they arrived he asked if i would do another couple of pieces in the same style, but this time featuring julia and dr.channard from the second film, hellbound. because … continue
“we have such sights to show you!” i wouldn’t be the artist i am today had if it weren’t for clive barker’s ‘the hellbound heart’ and the subsequent hellraiser mythos. i held the imagery in such esteem, that throughout my life i’d never dared try to capture them artistically. but i thought it was about … continue
this painting changed things… i’ve always used traditionally macabre subject matter (such as skulls, cadavers, monsters) in my work. but this was the first time i’d deliberately combined it with an intense vibrancy of colour. there were a few facets to this piece as it developed; it was painted on a canvas that i’d previously … continue
remember that time… when cheryl was possessed with a candarian demon, so we locked her in the cellar? progress photos on my facebook [link]
pet portraits have never been my thing. until now… a lady from the states asked me if i could do a portrait of her three dogs, after they’d been struck by the zombie plague. naturally i said yes. this is what the dogs looked like before Z-day… and this is how they looked afterwards.. you … continue
any NBX fans in the house?? i have to admit i’m not really a fan myself. i love the aesthetic but my god – i just hate musicals! so when i said i’d do a canvas based on the mayor’s character it was quite a challenge.. however, i think i nailed him personality pretty well … continue
greetings fellow zeflings! after doing a sketch of yo-landi a few weeks back [link], i couldn’t help but do a painting of the pretty lady too… above wip pics show the pencil sketch on A3 canvas, which was then blocked it in with black/white and grey acrylic. after that i worked more into the detail, … continue
this is a story of a painting that never should have happened… the intention was to do a very sketchily painted face, simply as a loosening up exercise in painting. however, as it developed it began to look like a bit like samuel jackson’s character [jules winnfield] from pulp fiction. naturally the relevant line from … continue
this is a close-up of a painting i did last year after witnessing an epic battle… [acrylic on canvas - this section is only about an inch high!] it features harry (a tiny rescue hedgehog) chomping through the shell of an unfortunate snail who was in the wrong place at the wrong time… as soon [...]
right at the start of this blog, i began a series of paintings. they were initially intended as an elaborate ‘to do‘ list, to make me more productive. but this very quickly became more of a dairy. used to record events and track my fluctuating mental states on a daily basis [i do have every [...]