Eating its own tail painting

Most recent painting - Eating its own tail


This is a painting I completed yesterday, I am quite pleased with how it came out. My artwork seems to be getting increasingly busy and bustled, but I spose my drawings have always been this way and now im just painting more like I draw. Im very glad this turned out as it did, there was a point when I started this one out where I thought it was going to be a real diasaster...

The title is a reference to the ouroboros (the snake eating its own tail)

Demon Eye - New painting - My biggest yet!!!

This is my newest painting called demon eye, an exercise in abstract expressionism. It's also my largest painting thus far at a meter by a meter..

I am quite pleased with how it came out, I wanted to produce something more dark and moody than some of my other work, something inbued with more of an inner tension and I think I achieved this broadly.

the creative process that went into the painting was one of going with my first feeling or my gut feelings and seeing how it turned out. It was also painted in an almost action painting sense as I experimented with different ways of attacking the canvas as it were, and different methods of applying the paint. Sometimes with broad brushstrokes, othertimes with an almost stabbing
motion.


I like it though , its preety messy i'll admit but I think it looks good and works on the whole.

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.

Some new paintings

The Priest - Acrylic on Acrylic Paper

This painting is something I just did on the spur of the moment.














Self portrait - Acrylic on 60cm by 80 cm canvas

Another attempt at a self portrait painting, but on a larger scale, came out better than the others
though still needs improvement.














Cutting the cord - Acrylic on 24cm by 18cm canvas

Abstract painting i did yesterday, very pleased with how it came out















Magic Eyes - Acrylic on 12 inch by 16 inch canvas

Abstract painting I did today, again pleased with it.

Organic improvisation series is complete!!

Ive done my 3rd and final painting in the planned series of three named organic improvisation -





















Did it in the same method as the 2nd one, that is I scribbled on the canvas then created the composition out of the scribbles, so that it was improvised in a sense.


Here is all of them together , in the order I think suited them best, all are acrylic on 30cm by 40cm canvas.

Do you like them?? hate them??? have suggestions for improvements??? Leave a comment.



Im quite please with how they turned out overall, though perhaps the middle one sticks out a bit.

Organic Improvisation 2

2nd in the planned series of three organic improvisation
paintings.

This one was actually more improvised than the first as I created it without any sketches, so in a sense this is more trully improvised than the first painting.

I actually like this one quite a lot, it is preety simple in composition but I think its preety effective.

To me It looks very fluid and flowing, like shapes floating around somekind of metaphysical soup!

New Painting - Organic Improvisation 1

First of a planned series of three, this is called organic improvisation, calling them improvisation because I wanted to create a harmonius composition with each . This is so far the only one iv'e done , going to do two others some time in the near future.



< Heres the sketch













< And the final painting, changed a few things, intially was only going to have black and white as the colors but I changed my mind and decided to add some grey, yellow and red, to make it stand out a bit. Preety pleased with it overall.