Shall We Let an Angel Pass

I started this painting some time ago and showed you a glimpse of it as it was a move away from using blues as a main colour palette.  That was some time ago and since then I have had many thoughts on how it was going to evolve with a lot of time just looking at the canvas and a lot of time waiting for the weather to improve so I could get outdoors and paint.  I have put detail in then taken it out, I have looked at it again and changed the shading.  I watched a movie that I had seen many years ago by Roman Polanski - The Fearless Vampire Killers - as I remembered it being so beautifully filmed and styled.  I have even taken my title from that movie as that part of the script had always stayed with me.  It was going to be a figurative painting but I spray painted it out to a portrait.  Then after painting some final detail in I went out on an errand and lost my spectacles. I have an old pair of spectacles I can wear for now although the lenses are not as clear.  The painting is finished and I have started a couple of new pieces that I will post about soon.

     

Painting on a Stratocaster

Painting on a Stratocaster copy was my new project.  The painted guitar is going to be hanging in a London restaurant with a selection of others painted by different artists. The metalwork, bridge, pick-ups and the curve of the main bodywork did not leave a lot of space for my image however  I am pleased with how it has fitted in and helped form the layout of the angel.

 

Tiny Angels

Three tiny angels spray painted on 20cm x 20cm board with one already on it's way over to America.  So I'm already planning to paint some more and have cut some smaller stencils that I will test out. I'm planning on working with some different colours and details. These will have to wait for a bit as I have just been given a new graffiti project to do.

When the sun comes out

 Small detail from a picture that is beginning to look like a form of an Angel painting. The cold weather this winter  has slowed down my work on this picture. When the sun comes out over the next week I will be able to get more layers of spray paint on and get them dry before I paint in the detail.  

Whizzing Along

We are half way into March and this year is really whizzing along.  There are still some traces left of the Kevin Threesaunds show at the Ben Oakley Gallery.  Dartboard, drinks tables, printed walls and bar were the setting for paintings by Ray Richardson, David Bray and Ben Oakley.

 


New work is planned and on its way while other paintings are now on show including my spray painted Guardian Angel that sits next to a couple of Pam Glew bleached fabric pictures, whose work I really like.  In a couple of weeks time all will change again as we whiz into April.

Snow on the Way

Snow is on the way, so it's time I put some snowy feather paintings out as free art in the streets of London.  When I was in the Ben Oakley Gallery last week Rowan Newton reckoned that there will be three weeks worth of snow.

   

I had forgotten about this photo I had taken of a very large painting Rowan made for the Urban Barrier show back in December.

I had also taken this photo that has him talking to what appears to be a butterfly boy.

Happy 2013

A Happy New Year to all my readers and I hope that 2013 will be a good year.