A Grisaille style portrait using a yellow-ochre and burnt sienna underpainting, beginning as a sketch during a life-painting session of the model.
A Spark in the Dark,
Oil on cartridge paper
A figurative painting using the three primaries, red, blue and yellow to represent different values of light. Developed from an acrylic figurative study during a figurative painting session with a live model.
By blending the figure into the white background the painting appears to be hazy, or dreamlike.
Somewhat upon a seat of sorts
Oil on wooden board
A Triptych of distorted portraits, featuring human faces with different facial features obscured by a hazy landscape-esque painting. With it’s diagonal positioning the triptych references the concept of the layers of the earth; sky above land above water.
In order left to right:
Of Scud, Oil on cotton rag – Of Dust, Oil on cotton rag – Of Flood, Oil on cotton rag
