I've been working on this painting for a few weeks now, just doing an hour here and there - and it is finally finished. It is inspired by a line from a song by Radical Face called 'Welcome Home'. Apologies to my friends/family members who know about ships who will spot all the mistakes in the ropes, etc. This piece is done entirely by hand - no digital colouring or touching up. "Ships are launching from my chest" - pencil, ink, gouache, watercolour pencil. Approx 26 x 39 cm. I think I'll have it produced as a print to buy at some point but for now I'm keeping it to myself... Click images below to view detail.
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Couple of things I've done for my dad in the last few months - Album cover for the mix CD I gave him for Christmas (aka 'DADLIST 2014') and a birthday card for February.
I was commissioned by Alice and Peter to draw some handwritten text in mint and coral for their wedding invitation - the final result is below: There were a couple of alternatives that I gave them to choose from (I originally drew them in a more blue shade, this was adjusted digitally later to fit the couple's colour scheme more closely). Click to view larger:
I painted a card for Alice and Peter to congratulate them on their recent engagement : (watercolour and gouache)
Maya commissioned me to draw a picture of her sister's new house to give to her as a birthday present: pencil, watercolour, pen
Sometimes living in London feels like you are underwater, with everyone swimming past you. gouache, pencil and pen on brown paper
My third contribution to a joint project with sisters illustrator Hannah Hunter-Kelm and photographer Ella Dickinson (click their names to see their online portfolios). We've been working on this for nearly a year now, adding artwork, collage and photography to a second hand copy of 'Dream Days' by Kenneth Grahame, with illustrations by Ernest H Shepard. We then post it to each other, and can start new pages, tear pages out and add to each others' work. I'm hoping to scan in the whole book at the end to upload - as the first person in the cycle, my artwork is usually worked into by the others and so it evolves and changes, so it might be interesting to see the book as a whole (and of course to see Hannah and Ella's work too). Above: another London sketch from a sneaky bus photo - pencil, gouache. Above: pencil. Above: collage
More drawings from photographs of people in the city. Tattooed man in the British Library - pencil and watercolour. Red-eyed man on the tube - pencil and watercolour. Walking couple - pencil.
More drawings of people from sneaky photos taken on the tube. Yes, I did see a nun and a boy solving a 10 x 10 rubik's cube... All drawings in pen and ink.
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