January 19th, 2010
Last year, the new creative activity boost saw me revisiting old techniques and subjects. But it’s a different world in 2010.
Pet portraits are not overly challenging and very rewarding creations. When I did them years ago there were few artists working specifically on pets. So trying to inject more creativity into day to day life [...]
December 5th, 2009
Last weekend I actually got out of the flat and travelled to big, bad London. That’s a rare event for me now, but this was a chance to meet with some new people.
I was delighted in October to have my work accepted by the SGFA (Society of Graphic Fine Art), and Saturday was my first [...]
July 29th, 2009
Typical, no sooner do I start to re-integrate increasingly creative projects into day-to-day life, they start popping up like frequent popping things.
I have an everlasting fascination with the way our minds recognise patterns, even in chaos. Without this we would not have art, writing, or see Jesus in pieces of toast. We strive to see [...]
July 19th, 2009
Ever in search of another creative project, a new one has surfaced that allows both of us at home to work in parallel.
Learning and discovery are what drive me to get up in the morning. Once life gets down to mundane routine, I start to feel very uncomfortable. Art is playing an increasingly significant part [...]
July 16th, 2009
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Could our plans be changing? With more and more thought about what is important and what are the core reasons for wanting the move to Spain, we could end up getting there sooner. Find out if we are there yet: AreNeilAndJenInSpainYet.com!
PET PORTRAITS
Bringing more and more art back into day to day life. Recent experiments [...]
July 10th, 2009
If you’ve been paying attention around here (or on flickr), you’ll be aware of a re-kindling of old techniques for the recent pet and animal portraits. Such efforts are far more rewarding when they are commissioned, so a new website was inevitable!
PetPortraitArt.co.uk
This currently very modest site will be a focus for promoting pet portraits [...]
July 4th, 2009
If this morning was any indication, today threatened to thunder uncontrollably down hill into what all you cool internet types would recognise as a Big Fat Über-Fail!
Having this week purchased additional gear to make the most of drawing and sketching on-site (as opposed to snapping photographs and sketches then working purely in my “studio”), I [...]
June 12th, 2009
I had forgotten the challenge of rendering short, fluffy cat fur in pencil!
June 7th, 2009
The latest batch of artworks are up on my flickr and artBlog. The most recent (above) is something of a departure from previous work there, and perhaps might surprise a few regular visitors.
Before becoming wrapped in the world of the web, I earned some of my crust as an illustrator. Mostly for publishing but also [...]
March 12th, 2009
It’s been a while since I’ve put pen to paper several thousand times and come up with a new drawing.
So here are two! Each are 190 mm x 190 mm drawings, pigment ink on acid free cartridge.
See the full versions on my flickr stream by clicking one of the images above. Both will shortly be are [...]
