Y Garn

Another Welsh landscape that started life as a quick plein-air laptop study. Probably the last one I'll go back to, although I might post the rest of the thumbnails from last years sessions as a form of closure.

Llanberis Slate, Gwynedd

Marine Drive, Great Orme, Llandudno

Late Summer II: Dolbadarn

Dolbadarn Castle, Llanberis

2011 Harddrive Clean: Late Summer I

Wishing the nosey people who follow this blog a most productive and rewarding 2012. Last year was a pretty hectic twelve months for me - busy with work and a few other projects that I should be able to show fairly soon. A lousy twenty odd posts for a whole year is rather weak to say the least. My thanks to you guys for sticking with me. :)

I'm not big on new year resolutions - why designate a specific time to make changes in your life - but I do plan to ease off on sticking my fingers in other peoples pies this year, and concentrate on my own projects and painting interests. That should equate to much more regular posts. I also want to pick up the pencil again and get back to a healthy sketching routine. We shall see.

Thanks, again, for your interest and encouragement. Here's to 2012! *sip*

A view of Pen-y-Pass, done in late summer. Started as a plein-air laptop paint. Only just got around to tidying it up a bit. A few more of these to follow.

DS Batch (Wales etc...)

Another batch of DS speedpaints. Mostly Welsh landscapes of Ogwen Valley area.

BOOM... Headshots

A bunch of portrait speedpaints. My apologies for the blog entry title. It just kind of  fell out. -_-

Environments

DS Faces

DS Another Landscape Dump

Gull

So little free time, as usual. I must get this blog back on track. I'm already missing out on some sweet autumn landscape painting time!

Portrait

DS Skull Studies

Ship Blagging (again)

I'm getting a little more confident at doing speedpaints of ships by suggesting, rather than overtly depicting. It's the best one can do without some pretty solid understanding of the workings of sails and rigging, wind and wave: An amalgamation of photo references thrown together with a slight nod towards the general colour palette from the film, Master and Commander. Done for a friend.

Prayer's Eye

Imagining a landscape feature from a book...