Portrait Artist

Here's a portrait just completed of Rosie's best friend Alice, and her little sister Millie.
All the time I'm working small and close, Jon Hall's words are echoing through my mind, "Work big, paint from the shoulder, forget the finer details!"

I will Jon, I promise. Lots of close work to complete first tho. ;)

Daleks ahoy!

Aah, twas a lovely weekend down in Somerset, at the Yeovilton Fleet Air Arm Museum, and the Dalek Day II event.

Finally met Alistair Pearson, an artist whose work inspired me to start painting Doctor Who portraits, long ago!

Caught up with Colin Baker and snuck lots of hugs!

The stall was a great success, thanks to a wonderful roadie - you know who you are!

Spent time with wonderful friends, had lots of laughs, good food, and relaxing times. Revisited old haunts Glastonbury and Aldbourne on the way home.

Never stop learning...

Last week, I enjoyed an impromptue art lesson with travelling artist Jon Hall, while staying in Runswick Bay. His wonderful canvas is the big colourful one above, which will shortly be auctioned for charity. My little sketch is now at home, where it reminds me every time I look at it, of how much I learnt that day.

Go check out Jon's amazing work at:

http://web.mac.com/suncage/Site/Suncage.html

David Tennant immortalised

Alas, Hamlet appears to be sold out, right up until November! Ho hum.

In the meantime, I've completed the above portrait on a small box canvas. It's in the style of the John Barrowman one I did a few months ago.

Torchwood finished

Topps

..and so completes my sample set to submit to Topps. Spent a very enjoyable couple of hours working on these last night.

Torching

A new Torchwood piece, just waiting to be coloured in!

Cracking on...

I'm working on a set of sketch cards to submit to Topps later this week. Here are the first three.

I've had a productive weekend! The Doctor's ladies are finished(I'm praying no one asks where Astrid is! Believe me, it wouldn't have worked composition-wise). And since Colin will be guest of honour at the Yeovilton event, I've done a portrait of him too. Still getting used to my new printer/scanner. Not happy with the results just yet. At least I've got my digi-cam to fall back on!

July 4 2008

This is my latest piece of artwork in progress. I'm pulling all the stops out now to get some good artwork ready for the Yeovilton Dalek Day in August. I have lots of ideas, hopefully there'll be time to realise them! I do love working in my new 'studio'!