Splat

Some life drawings from the last couple of weeks. I have been experimenting a bit with paint spatter as well as pastels on brown paper with some of the results you can see here. Some happy accidents, but this is only thin paper and I think I grossly overestimated its various capacities ;P

About 15-20 mins.

Ms Doody is Done!

Yay! Ms Doody is done for another year. A big thank you to the organisers and to everyone who came, especially those who bought pieces and prints.

A momentous effort from my partner Huong rendered my sometimes obtuse designs into 3D plushy goodness!

All my paintings and drawings can be seen on my deviant art account http://tommi-75.deviantart.com and photos of the plush artworks at http://ham-pie.deviantart.com/

Unframed prints are still available for sale (A3 prints of the paintings with an A4 print of the drawing included) just email me on tommi_art@yahoo.com or note me on deviant art. All prints are on 300gsm gloss stock.

Cheers, Tommi

Sneak peek

Here is a sneak peek of some of the images I'm showing at Ms Doody's Art Show the 2nd

Prints and postcards will be for sale as well as the original paintings which will each be sold with an amazing plush model (rendered into spectacular 3 dimensional squishiness by my partner Huong). It's in Adelaide this weekend, so if you are too then come along!

Ms Doody's Art Show the 2nd

If anyone lives in Adelaide (or will be in Adelaide) South Australia and hasn't yet received one of these flyers about the Ms Doody Art Show the 2nd then here it is in digital format.
For everyone else, here is a reminder:
November 20th- Opening night and continues all weekend: November 21-22

Original artworks and prints for sale including stuff by me!

So come along... bring the family and find that elusive Christmas gift with a touch of personality... see you there!

November Life

Some more life drawings from a fairly grooving session at Eastwood. Thanks to Harry for tweaking the lighting and of course Beth for modelling.

October Life

Some life drawings from Eastwood

Great model who is a dancer and throws some extraordinary poses which make us all work hard to capture! Here are a few of my efforts. About 15-20 mins.

Jive Bar Mural

I have been most remiss in posting for a while, but this is my contribution as part of a mural to refurbish the inside of the Jive Bar on Hindley St, Adelaide a little while ago.

The mural was a nightime cityscape with lots of windows in the building which we had free reign to fill however we wished. Some fantastic artists displayed their talents.

I went for the superhero girl getting ready to slink into the night in her superheroing costume, but who otherwise has a pretty ordinary room.

Acrylic and spraypaint on wall.

Alice in Wonderland

A mural in my little one's room.

It occupies the entire wall- about 3m x 2.4m. Acrylic.

This piece tries to reflect some of the mayhem and nonsense of the book as well as the strange undercurrents in each of the characters.

Other than that, it's fun!

Life Drawings MkII

A selection of drawings from the Eastwood life drawing group on Wednesday nights.

Some really dynamic poses that I thought gave some good results and were worth sharing.

Mostly pastel and conte, some in charcoal.

But wait there's more... colour!

Ice Festival version 2.0

My editor commented that the skin was indeed too orange! So here is another version with a more realistic palette and possibly it works better tonally too. As always with colour: less is more... more or less. Something like that anyway.

Feeding in the colour

Ice Festival

The last image in this series of sketches for my Children's Portfolio. I'm just beginning to feed in the colour with this one. I wanted the purple to harmonise with the blue that I did previously as the two images will probably be seen as a spread.

The yellow/orange was then chosen to vibrate off that- it's too saturated to be a realistic skin tone, but for the sake of a stylised illustration I'm hoping it works =).

Addit: I printed this out today and I'm a little bit chuffed to see it in hard copy- it semed to come out ok I think!

Pencil for Portfolio

A pencil piece for my children's portfolio. Photo referenced with some artistic license, taken at Gorge Rd Wildlife Park in the Adelaide Hills, South Australia.

Post Version 2.0

Ice and Snow


Big Steps


On the Farm

Here are some new pics- two of which are actually old sketches but Scanned and Digitally Remastered (ie coloured in) for the twenty first century.

I am just working in monochrome or two colours at the moment to get a proper digital process going that works for me. Once I get more confident with how brushes behave, and what I can make them do, then I may move on to more full colour pieces.

Welcome to Tommiart

Greetings and welcome to the Tommiart blog. This is my space to post recent works, works in progress and other news.

Here are a couple of life drawings from our Wednesday night group at Eastwood- some great poses and lighting!