commissioned painting 'Joyous Nude'

I was recently commissioned to do a painting with the words 'Joyous Nude' in mind. I made the canvas stretcher in the wood workshop and stretched the canvas myself. I used my sister as a model which is why I have blurred out my reference photo    
                                     

I often hold my painting up to look at it through a mirror. This can give me the illusion of fresh eyes; seeing it from a different perspective to see what can be done to improve it 

birthday gifts

To celebrate my parents both turning 50 this year, I made a series of sketches, paintings and prints of the family to gift to them. 

a mono print of my brother and sister. I used oil-based ink on copper and used cotton buds, pencils and kitchen roll to create texture and shape

A4 paper

a mono print of my father doing a squat A4 paper 

for this print I used a mixture of hard ground etching and an acrylic medium for aqua-tinting 

the pink is the acrylic medium - you can cover areas you do not wish to be 'bitten' by acid, therefore controlling the intensity of the black when inked

'My dad' each on A4 paper

'Me' charcoal and oil paint on A4 paper

'My mother' oil pastel and oil paint on A4 paper

'Phoebe' charcoal and oil paint sketch on A4 paper

another of my dad. Oil paint on A4 paper

Leazes Park

My most recent painting is based on Leazes Park near my university halls. Taking photographs of the scenery, I then collaged them together and then made this painting from a section of the collage. 

Artists who have inspired this piece: David Hockney, Sofia Neptuno, Cecily Brown and Andre Derain, Karl Schmidt Rottluff.
The piece is approx 75cm x 75cm and is charcoal and oil paint on board.

THE FINAL PRODUCT!

the collages - the top one inspired this painting. 

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Some more articles for The Courier

See below some other articles I have done for the student newspaper's art section, first a review of a Fine Art show at Northumbria University, and then another on the effects of the Internet on art culture amongst our generation.

a new painting!

Using some old board I found in a skip at uni, I started using my photographs and collages to draw out a vague landscape in charcoal. I then automatically chose my colours of oil pastel and oil paint to bring life to the drawing. This is currently a series of sketches - I want to refine my technique before I start on larger paintings.

the finished sketches! Seen next A4 paper for scale