James the Flute Player- Adelaide Project

This is James, a rather burly looking chap who I saw playing the flute in quite an accomplished manner and busking in Rundle Mall. He was gracious enough to let me take his picture and even lift his wrap around sunnies.

Oil on canvas 762mm x 1016mm

Chloe Kim- street portrait artist

This is a portrait of Korean backpacker and artist Chloe Kim. Adelaide is a place where people of all sorts of backgrounds and stories end up- it's nice that way. It's nice that art helps us share our stories.
This is oil on canvas 915mm x 605mm. My first portrait in oil and I'm pretty chuffed so far, so there will hopefully be more to come.

Me ol' Mam

A portrait I did for my mum's birthday. Acrylic on canvas 50cm x 60cm

Ice Angel WIP

A purely digital paint with an attempt to get away from drawing and invest in a more painterly style with some moderately strong shadows, but with little or no black. A bit more to do I think. Comments welcome.

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!