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)

Upcoming Exhibition

Im having some of my paintings shown in an oxfam art exhibition
called painting for poverty. Preety excited/nervous about it haha.

27th march - April 5th (11am-11pm)

at Solomon Grundy, Wilmslow Road, Withington Manchester


http://www.citylife.co.uk/arts/news/12792_art_community_unites_to_paint_for_poverty

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 Painting Dance

This is the latest painting iv'e done, not been doing so much recently because I am poor so i'm saving my money up a bit, hence not being able to buy many art supplies. I am thinking at some point soon I want to work on a much larger scale though, maybe metre by metre canvas and bigger. Iv'e always liked doing big paintings because you get a real sense of achievement when they're finished and they wow you a bit more in scope....


Anyway latest painting - Dance (Acrylic on 35.5cm by 35.5 cm canvas)

Slightly different from some of my other paintings due to the fact that the forms are spidery and thin , the concept for this painting is two lovers dancing, but in an abstracted fashion or at least thats my interperation of it. The figure on the left being the male and the figure on the right being the female.

Prints

Iv'e a few prints of some of my artwork now avaliable to buy on deviantart

http://perma-fried.deviantart.com/prints/

Sorry for the lack of updates recently, been quite busy and not really had much time to draw and paint, plan to at some point soon though, possibly tommorow.

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.

Self portraits thus far

Recently I have been trying to get my drawings and self portraits of myself to look better,
I still have a long way to go in this task but I think i'm making slow
progress, and have been experimenting with different ways of going
about it.

These are some drawings i've done of my self over the past few months more or
less.

I was quite please with this one, it has a softness to it I like, I think because I look calm and relaxed in my expression, or at least that how i've drawn
it.




























Where as this one is more of an aggressive pose I am pulling , especially if you look in the
eyes, which look quite angry and squinted.





This one is my latest drawing self portrait (well that I've scanned anyway), I think it looks
alright , though a little too podgy around the face, it could do with more detail too I think.
















And these are the paintings , that i've attempted to do of myself. Ive done a few more than these
but they turned out really bad so im not going to show them haha




This is my first proper attempt at a self portrait (well actually my second but the first was a diasater!!)


It looks preety simple and it is, there is nothing really excting about it in the pose or the way i've
painted it, but it is ok for a first try I think.















This is a recent one I did, messed up the skin tones so it looks like I have many bruises on my face,
also my eyes are way too big. So not very pleased with it at all!!!








This is the 2nd recent one I did, preety happy with it even though it was just an experiment. This time
I painted a black outline for the face, this made it easier to define the features of the face, im preety
happy with it , it's ok for just trying out a new method.















And my most recent one, a self portrait of me in my green coat (The one I always paint in actually!!)
I did this in a similiar manner to the last , that is I used black lines as an outline, but this time they
were much thicker black lines. Im preety happy with how it came out, but again, it needs more detail and
I need to define my style further.

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.

Three stripes on Red - New Painting

Did another painting two days ago, called three stripes on red. Kind of an attempt at doing a more moody minimal style of painting.

I can admit that this is much influenced by Rothko
as you may be able to tell, though I tried to give it my own touch and make it original as much as possible. Im preety happy with how it turned out overall.