Tag: animals
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Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah
This summer I had the pleasure of creating a portrait of my friend Heather. The painting was commissioned by her mother-in-law, who has been a great friend and supporter of my art since my early days in London. We had been planning this painting for quite some time now, and ideas had been exchanged over…
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Seduction is a Double-Edged Sword
I was going to wait until I took some better photos before I unveiled my new painting, but I haven’t had time to re-photograph the painting yet. The thing is, I often have a really difficult time trying to photograph my paintings, trying to capture all of the minute details in a photograph that also…
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Hairdresser on Fire
I thought it would be fun to reveal the two characters in my new painting with before and after shots – to show how my painting progressed. A few blog posts back, I already showed the face of a lion as the masked man in this painting from my Of Myth and Men series. So here…
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Thunder & lightning
It’s that time again…a new painting is in the works. I realized that many of the skyscapes in my Of Myth and Men series capture the moment before a storm – before the lightning crashes and the thunder roars. But then maybe not, on second thought. Sometimes they seem to represent the calm before the…
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The Lady and The Unicorn
Every once in a while, I work on something new and think that I have this great new idea, only to realize that I’ve actually visited the same imagery or theme before. I don’t think this is a bad thing though. It’s pretty interesting actually, looking back at why I first chose that image/theme to…