Latest paintings 29/12/08

These are my three latest paintings produced within the last week or so, and in order
of when I completed them

Grinning banker - Acrylic on 24cm by 18cm canvas-
Did this as a bit of fun, the reason he's grinning so widely and obscenly is because he's still getting a big bonus at the end of the year!! It's a very strange painting, I kind of just did it in the spur of the moment, and it's very different to what I do normally. The face is identifiable but very abstracted and warped so that's it's almost monsterous.














Fragments of Microcosm - Acrylic on box canvas
Painted over an old painting I had because I didn't like it very much and ended up with this. It's a bit darker in the colours I used for it than my usual paintings but I think it works still. It's called fragements of microcosm was because when I looked at it, it looked like a small weird ecosystem or something on the microlevel. The sketch which the painting was based on was called fragements/fragemented so I went with that and called it fragments of microcosm.










Swirling Mass - Acrylic on 18inch by 24inch canvas
Based on a sketch I did , this painting was quite gruelling and took me about 4 or 4 and a half hours to complete. I am quite pleased with the results. It has a much darker background than many of my other paintings (which tend to have light backgrounds) and this makes the eye concentrate a lot more on the central shapes or swirling mass in the center I think.