Regency Punk, Image 3 - coming soon - Promise

SHOOTING THE BREEZE - 'Regency Punk' painting #2 -

Howdy Folks! I'm back at long last! Been lookin' for a new house close to the coast...found one 10 minutes from the centre of  the city...didn't get to the coast after all. (A coastal move will come roughly two years from now, we hope!.) We move in to the new place in four weeks...packing....yeeek!!!!! The studio will need a truck all of its own! (Seven exclamation marks and I've only just begun....! Eight.)

Now on to the business side of this blog...the art stuff.

 

 

 

  

I quite like this 19th Century, hand-tinted engraving look. What about you Folks?

 

 

As I've been neglecting to keep 'Goblin Hunter' updated, I've dumped lots of progress pics here in one instalment...sorry Folks. I've also put some of the preliminary pencil on tracing paper pieces up that have appeared in a previous post - they were mixed in with others unrelated to this painting so, here they are again to give you the...here comes a pun...complete picture.  

Well, there you have it, the latest in the 'Regency Punk'  series, Folks. More to come of course, but due to the upheaval that packing and moving is going to cause it will be a little while before you see another post  with any pictorial content from me. So to you all, thanks for visiting - and, wish me luck with packing and moving the house and studio 50ks from this present location.

Cheers, RWS 

I am here Folks!

Howdy Folks! Sorry there has been no posting from this dauber for a while...life in the form of a marriage,( my eldest Daughter's) domestic duties, (garden make-over with my lovely wife)...Looking too, to move from semi-rural hilly area to semi-rural by the sea location, (My wife and I have seen the inside of so many houses, other than our own recently that it's been difficult at times to remember what ours looks like...exhausting!) I've also had PC hassles...AGAIN! (without one for a while...for too long a while!) have meant that I've found it difficult, no, I've found it, impossible to keep the blog up to date. Despite all the preceding aspects of life I've listed, I have still managed to get some work done in the studio...haven't kept up with progress photos though, so expect rather dramatic jumps in the, WIP, posts I'm intending to make over the next day or so.

What I'm working on at the moment is another 'Regency Punk' painting...Shooting the Breeze...shall be glad to get it out of the way, been at it for well over six weeks now and I have a well formed idea and some sketches for the next one that I really want to get stuck into. The Breeze is taking so long, as it's a very large picture, physically I mean. Using water-colour as my medium - my favourite - it takes a lot of  work to cover the larger areas of the picture with my glazing technique for depth of colour and richness of the shadows.

Anyhow, enough talk, on with painting...shall post very soon, Folks.

Cheers to all, RWS

A BIRD IN THE HAND - WIP & Final Image

Howdy Folks! Well here he is, finished at last! Why does it take so long to complete a picture? Because I tend to use my acrylic gouache and water-colour as I would tempera; lots of layers and a slow build up of colour depth. The greens of our hero's out-fit for instance is made up of,  at  the very least, six layers of colour. The same goes for the grass at his feet. I know an awful lot of labour intensive work but I think it's worth it myself.  What do you think Folks? I'd love to know.

Cheers for now. RWS.

Art of the Absurd - Regency Punk - a WIP - A Bird in The Hand (or, Who Shot Cock Robin?)

(Here I am, back again...the Internet connection is still holding so I'm pushing my luck a little longer; thus...)

Howdy Folks!

As you may recall from a previous post...the one with Klimtian, dancing, straw-necked ibis'...I made mention that I was taking a two year break from book illustration, (did I mention that? Oh. No? Well I am...) and will be devoting myself to fantasy work for the sheer joy of expressing MY own visions. The plan is to exhibit these pictures at a gallery when I have a sufficient number to constitute a reasonable show. I'll announce both where and when as the time approaches. (If there's any interest, of course.) (However, should any of you who may be viewing this blog over the next couple of years wish to purchase one of my offerings, you may do so. The price - in Australian dollars - will be determined by the respective work's size and consequent framing, postage and packaging and 'in transit' insurance costs - glass breaks you know.)

Now, back to the subject at hand...The fantasy work. I'm presently pursuing themes that are very heavy on the late 17th and early 18th centuries with regard to costume and both interior and exterior locations,(landscapes etc.) I've come to think of this as my Georgian or probably more correctly,  my Regency Punk influenced period. (It's my made up term for it anyway.) There will be humour - can't help myself - but with some dark overtones. And at present, I am envisaging introducing modern or futuristic technologies completely alien to the Regency world...it's punk after all. Anyway, that's the plan. On with some pics Rory...

Ain't he lovely? (Oh! By way of a PS on the previous post, the drawings in varying shades of grey are costume and character studies for future paintings. And the paintings will be in a mix of water colour, acrylic gouache, metallic inks and metallic acrylic gouache...hence the need to frame with mats and glass.  )

So, CHEERS for now Folks. Catch ya next time. RWS

WIP - At Last! - the beginnings of; Art of the Absurd - (A personal fantasy project)

Hi ya Folks! Back at last...but only just. I''ve been having no end of computer problems over the past weeks and I'm getting this post in before my connection with the net crashes yet again. My PC is going off to have a complete strip down and re-install just as soon as I'm finished with this posting. When it returns it will be going into the study as a general purpose  machine and not hooked up to the net...I've got a new iMac with an A3 scanner and printer and all the other bells and whistles in the studio now...well it will be, once it's unpacked from its boxes.

No, this doesn't mean that I'm going over to digital image creation; it just means a better way of copying, storing and displaying my trad forms of art.  As you can see from the above images, I'm still using the old fashioned painting and drawing methods.

Not wishing to push my luck any further with my internet connection I shall now sign off and get the machine to the techs for its much needed tender loving care. So, I'll say cheers for now Folks and, hopefully, be back with you soon.

RWS

Will be posting soon Folks. On a roll with Prelim drawings - daren't stop.